Sentences with phrase «seeds in the cones»

Among the things he found fascinating is that they are a group of finches highly specialized for feeding on the seeds in the cones of different conifer species that have evolved different beak morphologies despite a clear lack of geographical isolation.

All of these trees produce their seeds in cones, and so are also called coniferous trees, meaning «cone - bearing.»

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During my childhood back home, street vendors sold all kinds of snacks in small paper cones - toasted sunflower seeds, berries, nuts, candy, and other...

Styled with real pine cones, grapevine, holly berries, seed pods and evergreens, as well as live Amaryllis plants and white birch tree branches, the natural design scheme pays tribute to both the bare winter tree branches in Rittenhouse Square, and Executive Chef Jon Cichon's unwavering commitment to using only the finest, locally - sourced, seasonal ingredients.

Roll the cone in bird seed (black - oil sunflower seed often works best).

Gymnosperms (Gymnospermae) are a group of seed - bearing plants with ovules borne on the edge or blade of an open sporophyll, the sporophylls usually arranged in cone - like structures.

But their seeds are no more protected or guarded in their cones than the seeds in any pinecone.

About 980 species produce «naked» seeds, often attached to cones; the rest are flowering plants, whose seeds are enclosed in ovaries that ripen into fruit.

Leslie found the first cases of wider seed cones in the Jurassic period, a time when very large vertebrate herbivores, such as the long - necked sauropods Diplodocus and Barapasaurus, roamed Earth.

This widening was not a result of larger seeds but instead a broadening of the scales with which the cone arms itself against grazers, he reports online today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

«All the years with a high number of seed cones had one thing in common: a high number of pollen cones,» says Rapp.

«Genes required for the production of small RNA in seeds were at the very top of the list of genes responsible for the evolution of flowering plants from cone - bearing plants.

You can also use... Grass Stones Flowers Sticks Soil Seeds Pine cones Straw This activity has endless benefits, the most obvious being developing creativity in children, fine motor skills, sensory skills and of course an appreciation of natural resources they might otherwise not use.

Decorate a Tree for the Birds Place seed bells, suet, pine cones with peanut butter and seed trays on any tree in your yard, preferably a tree in the open where cats can be seen easily by the birds.

In the forests, fire - hating trees like oak and hickory muscle aside fire - loving species like loblolly, longleaf, and slash pine, which are so dependent on regular burning that their cones will only open and release seed when exposed to flame.

To get the small and iron - hard cones to open requires them to be charred in a bonfire for quite a time, and only then will the teeny - tiny seeds come out.

When I lived in SC, we had a couple of pine trees that produced huge pine cones and besides using them for decorations we would dab peanut butter all over them and cover them with seeds and hang with mono filament fishing line from the trees surrounding our terrace....