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.

The seed cones are 4 – 7 cm long and mature in 18 – 20 months, though they typically remain green and closed for up to 20 years ; each cone has 30-50 spirally arranged scales, with several seeds on each scale, giving an average of 230 seeds per cone.

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 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 Hebrew Bible forbids a man from marrying his brother's widow with the exception that, if his brother died childless, the man is instead required to marry his brother's widow so as to " raise up seed to him " ( taken from Deuteronomy 25: 5 – 6 ).

Adult trees produce several hundred 15 cm ( 6 in ) seed pods.

There are 6 such areas in the northern and northeastern portion of North Korea. Factionalists or enemies of class, whoever they are, their seed must be eliminated through three generations.

It also encompasses about 6 – 11 % of all seed plants.

With a record of 10 – 6 the Eagles clinched the 3rd seed and had to play a wild-card playoff game.

However, they ended up winning their first 6 regular season games en route to an 11-5 record, the AFC West championship and the # 2 AFC playoff seed.

By 1999, the global average seed use of wheat was about 6 % of output.

The typical mean weight of finger millet seed is about 2. 6 grams.

The fruit is a nut called an acorn, borne in a cup-like structure known as a cupule ; each acorn contains one seed ( rarely two or three ) and takes 6 – 18 months to mature, depending on species.

Above the desert scrub and up to 6, 200 feet is a pinyon pine forest and one seed juniper woodland.

Trees grown from seed bear after 5 – 6 years.

The fruit is a net-textured, leathery legume pod 6 or 7 millimeters long containing one seed.

After winning Game 5 at home, Bulls were eliminated by the 76ers in Game 6 in Philadelphia, becoming the fifth team in NBA history to be eliminated as a first seed by an eighth seed.

However, chemistry would be an issue, as the Nuggets finished the season with the 6 seed, giving them a first round matchup against the San Antonio Spurs.

In Game 6, the Warriors used a third-quarter 18 – 0 run to eliminate the Mavericks and become the first No. 8 seed to beat a No. 1 seed in a seven-game series ( and the first No. 8 seed to beat the top seed since 1999 when the New York Knicks eliminated the Miami Heat ).

By finishing sixth in the Western Conference, with a record of 47 – 35 ( their highest finish since the team left Buffalo ), they benefited from the current NBA playoff format of regular season records taking precedence over winning the division, and secured home court advantage over the Denver Nuggets instead of traveling to Denver for four games as a No. 6 seed would usually be expected to do.

Buckwheat plants grow quickly, beginning to produce seed in about 6 weeks and ripening at 10 to 11 weeks.

One striking juxtaposition is found in the Offertorium, a fugue in the repeating three-part time scheme 6 / 8, 9 / 8, 6 / 8 where the choir sings of God's promise to Abraham (" Quam olim Abrahae promisisti, et semini eius " – " which you once promised Abraham and his seed ").

The Baker Creek Spring Planting Festival, drawing 6, 000 attendants, is held there each spring and features a music show, speakers on agricultural, horticultural, and agro-political topics, historic demonstrations, and an open-air bazaar with plant and seed vendors ' booths.