Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. In the biology of pine trees, the cone is actually not the seed at all, but a ...

This article may contain affiliate links that Yahoo and/or the publisher may receive a commission from if you buy a product or service through those links. Pine nuts are not actually nuts at all, but ...

These native conifers can grow even in poor, rocky soil. The Spruce / Evgeniya Vlasova Jack pine is a tree that cannot be tamed—this small to medium-sized evergreen grows its own way and takes over ...

Norfolk Island pine (Araucaria heterophylla) is not an actual pine tree, despite the name. Rather, these plants are a ...