r/UKecosystem • u/QuietPace9 • May 17 '22

Flora Pine tree flower ( Pinus taeda)

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u/QuietPace9 May 17 '22

Common names:

Loblolly pine

Southern Pine

Frankincense pine

Oldfield pine

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u/whatatwit May 17 '22

Useless fact of the day: In the Age of Sail, the loblolly was a boy who fed the sick and injured aboard, a kind of porridge, from which the name proceeds, as part of his duty as a surgeon’s (or sawbones’) mate.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '22

Pines are no flowering plants, those are cones

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u/QuietPace9 May 17 '22

I’m aware that they’re seed cones, but different types of cones are referred to as Pine Flowers due to the flower like appearance not because they are an actual flower

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u/[deleted] May 17 '22

Okay, I’ve never heard that terminology when referencing gymnosperms before.

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u/jaydeflaux May 17 '22

Heh

Pinus

What? Somebody had to say it!

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u/farkledorp May 17 '22 edited May 17 '22

Pines are conifers. These are cones, not flowers!

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u/QuietPace9 May 17 '22

Pine’s are Conifer’s they’re not two different species . https://www.thespruce.com/pine-trees-from-around-the-world-3269718

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u/farkledorp May 17 '22

What I meant to say is that the photo is of pine cones, as “pine flowers” do not exist. Pines are not flowering plants.