Hops are the female flower clusters or seed cones of the hop vine Humulus lupulus, which are used as a flavouring and preservative agent in nearly all beer made today.

Hops are the female flower clusters ( commonly called seed cones or strobiles ), of a hop species, Humulus lupulus.

The cones of this dioecious tree are berry-like, with a single ( rarely two ) 7 – 11 mm seed apical on an 8 – 14 mm pink-purple aril ; the aril is edible and sweet.

For some species, wildfires are a necessary part of the life cycle in the taiga ; some, e. g. Jack Pine have cones which only open to release their seed after a fire, dispersing their seeds onto the newly cleared ground.

Giant sequoia cones and seed

Immature seed ( female ) cones of cultivated tree in Portland, Oregon, USA ( fall )

The mature female seed cones are pendent, long, broad when closed, opening to broad.

Even during heavy seed crop years, only about 25 percent of trees in closed stands produce an appreciable number of cones.

The mature female seed cones are pendent, 4 – 7 cm long, 2 cm broad when closed, opening to 3 – 4 cm broad.

Examples are the precursor cells of gametophytes of seed plants found in flowers ( angiosperms ) or cones ( gymnosperms ).

The seed cones are barrel-shaped, 6 – 12 cm long and 3 – 8 cm broad, green maturing grey-brown, and, as in Abies, disintegrate at maturity to release the winged seeds.

The fungal inoculum infects the growing cones of W. mirabilis early during their development, and a sharp increase in infection occurs coincident with the appearance of the pollination drops, through which the fungal spores may gain access to the interior of the developing seed.

Image: N-welwitschia-2. jpg | Detail photograph of ripe female cones after seed dispersal

Larch cones are erect, small, 1 – 9 cm long, green or purple, ripening brown 5 – 8 months after pollination ; in about half the species the bract scales are long and visible, and in the others, short and hidden between the seed scales.

The female ( seed ) cones, which mature in autumn about 18 months after pollination, are globose, large, 12 – 20 cm diameter, and hold about 200 seeds.

The female seed cones are very distinctive, with fleshy, fruit-like coalescing scales which fuse together to form a " berry "- like structure, 4 – 27 mm long, with 1-12 unwinged, hard-shelled seeds.

The seed cones produce 1 to 3 seeds per scale, the seeds are lenticular in shape and equally 2 winged.

The seed cones are globose, 5 to 7 cm diameter, and mature 18 to 20 months after pollination ; the seed cones disintegrate at maturity to release winged seeds, which are then dispersed by the wind.

A single tree produces both male and female seed cones.

The bark and the seed cones of the trees often survive together with the trunk, although when excavated and exposed to the air, these parts undergo rapid deterioration.

The seed cones are red at pollination, then pale brown, globose and 4 – 8 mm diameter in their first year, expanding to full size in their second year, pointed ovoid-conic, green, then grey-green to yellow-brown at maturity, 3-7. 5 cm in length.

More than 200 million tons of seeds and seed products are fed to livestock annually in the United States.

Chief among the seed crops grown primarily for industrial uses are the oil-bearing seeds -- flax, castor, tung ( nuts from the China wood-oil tree ), perilla ( from an Oriental mint ), and oiticica ( from a Brazilian tree ).

Sizable amounts of soybean, coconut, and palm kernel oil -- seed oils that are produced primarily for food purposes -- also are used to make soaps, detergents, and paint resins.

The economic importance of seed crops actually is even greater, because additional returns are obtained from most of the corn, oats, barley, and sorghum -- as well as the cake and meal from the processing of flaxseed, cottonseed, and soybeans -- through conversion to poultry, meat, and dairy products.

Not included was the value of seed oil in paints and varnishes or the value of the coffee and chocolate industries that are based on imported seed or seed products.

Her hair was the color of those blooms which in seed catalogues are referred to as `` black '', but since no flower is actually without color contain always a hint of grape or purple or blue -- he wanted to draw the broad patina of hair through his fingers, searching it slowly for a trace of veining which might reveal its true shade beneath the darkness.

The plants grow and bloom during the cool season when most other plants are dormant or other annuals are in seed form waiting for warmer weather to germinate.

The fruits are non-fleshy schizocarp of two mericarps, each with a single seed ; they separate at maturity and are dispersed by wind.

The lesser-known stressors generally occur on a smaller scale and so are less noticeable, but they include: poor edaphic conditions like rock content and pH, high radiation, compaction, contamination, and other, highly specific conditions like rapid rehydration during seed germination.

Off-loom beadweaving is a family of beadwork techniques in which seed beads are woven together into a flat fabric or a three-dimensional object such as a ball, clasp, box, or a piece of jewelry.

New plants are often started via layering, or from cuttings, since growing from seed can be difficult.

Bay trees are difficult to start from seed, due in part to the seed's low germination rate, and long germination period.

Beginning with the 2012 season, the wild card team that advances to the Division Series will face the number 1 seed, regardless of whether or not they are in the same division.

Beginning with the 2012 season, the wild card team that advances to the Division Series will face the number 1 seed, regardless of whether or not they are in the same division.

Gymnosperms are the ancestors of the Angiosperms or flowering plants which produce a seed encased in a structure such as a carpel.

It is < nowiki > Apostle Paul's </ nowiki > teaching in one instance that all who are Christ's by faith are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to promise.

For example, endosperm cell walls in the seeds of cereal grasses, nasturtium, and other species, are rich in glucans and other polysaccharides that are readily digested by enzymes during seed germination to form simple sugars that nourish the growing embryo.

The lower seed plays at home in Game 3 and Game 4 ( if necessary ).

The lower seed plays at home in Game 3 and Game 4 ( if necessary ).

The fruit is a lateral fusiform or ovoid achene 4 – 5 mm long, containing a single seed.

* In 2010, Butler reached their first Final Four as a # 5 seed, beating # 12 seeded UTEP in the first round behind a flurry of 3-pointers, edging out a very good # 13 seed Murray State ( who upset # 4 seed Vanderbilt in the first round ), and then in the Sweet 16, Butler upset # 1 seed Syracuse, and in a thrilling Elite Eight game Butler upset # 2 seed Kansas State.

Indianapolis would end the season with a 12 – 4 record and entered the playoffs for the fifth consecutive year, this time as the number three seed in the AFC.

The Giants responded, winning the rest of their regular season games to finish the season 12 – 4 and earn a bye as the NFC's top seed.

In 2008, the Giants won the NFC East with a record of 12 – 4 ( and also were the number one seed in the NFC after beating the Carolina Panthers for home field advantage ), but lost 23 – 11 to the Philadelphia Eagles in the divisional round of the playoffs.

The Redskins finished the 1987 strike-shortened regular season as NFC East champions with an 11 – 4 record and the third seed in the NFC playoffs.

The dispenser of the mysteries of God can see himself in the man who sowed his field, of whom the Lord said: " then sleep and rise, night and day, and the seed should sprout without his knowing " ( Mk 4: 27 ).

The seed is dark brown, 4 – 5 mm long and 1 mm broad, with a 1-mm wide, yellow-brown wing along each side.

However, after the government changed policy and subsidies for fertilizer and seed were introduced, farmers produced record-breaking corn harvests in 2006 and 2007 as production leaped to 3. 4 million in 2007 from 1. 2 million in 2005.

An individual datura seed contains about 0. 1 mg of atropine, and the approximate fatal dose for adult humans is > 10 mg atropine or > 2 – 4 mg scopolamine.

An 8 – 3 – 4 run in March coupled with two huge wins over New Jersey and Pittsburgh over the final weekend of the regular season put the Flyers back in the playoffs as the sixth seed and a first round matchup with Washington.

The fruit is a flat samara 2 cm long and 1. 5 cm broad, with a circular wing surrounding the single 4 – 5 mm seed.

In the second round, or Conference Semifinals, the top remaining conference seed plays against the lowest remaining seed, and the other two remaining conference teams pair off ( unlike the NBA, for example, where the 1 – 8 winner always plays the 4 – 5 winner, and the 2-7 to play 3-6, regardless of who wins ).

In 2005, it finalized the purchase of Seminis Inc, a leading global vegetable and fruit seed company, for $ 1. 4 billion.

Monsanto's vegetable seed lineup includes " 4, 000 distinct seed varieties representing more than 20 species " that are created through breeding, not through genetic engineering.