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The seed cones are the largest of any juniper, berry-like but hard and dry, green ripening in about 25 months to dark purple-brown with a pale blue waxy coating ; they are ovoid to spherical, 20-27 mm long and 20-25 mm diameter, and have six or nine fused scales in 2-3 whorls, each scale with a slightly raised apex.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Russia is the world's top producer of rye, barley, buckwheat, oats and sunflower seed, and one of the largest producers and exporters of wheat.
* The largest seed is produced by the coco de mer, or " double coconut palm ", Lodoicea maldivica.
The garden is mainly an educational and scientific tool for the Irkutsk State University and maintains the largest plant collection of living plants in Eastern Siberia ( more than 5000 plant taxa ), a herbarium, and a seed bank.
Planted in 1996, these palms are now some of the largest in the UK and for the last few years have fruited and produced viable seed, the first time this species of palm has been recorded doing so in the UK.
This made it the world's largest conventional seed company at the time.
Emergent was the third largest U. S. cotton seed company, with about 12 percent of the U. S. market.
The district is noted for seed potato production and bills itself as the world's largest seed potato growing area.
In the first half of the 20th Century, Maitland claimed to have the largest bluegrass seed producing farm in the world.
For many years Waterloo was the world's largest producer of vine and seed corn.
The largest single vine seed sale occurred in the 1920s when eight railcar-loads of cucumber seeds were shipped.
It is the largest family-owned wildflower seed farm in the United States and host of an annual Wildflower Celebration.
It is the largest seed bank in the world ( longterm, at least 100 times bigger than Svalbard Global Seed Vault ), providing space for the storage of billions of seed samples in a nuclear bomb proof multi-story underground vault.
Brassica napus is cultivated mainly for its extremely nutritious, oil-rich seed, the third largest source of vegetable oil in the world.
In 1966, India imported 18, 000 tons — the largest purchase and import of any seed in the world at that time.
The mature fruit is 40 – 50 cm in diameter and weighs 15 – 30 kg, and contains the largest seed in the plant kingdom.
As stated above, it holds the record for the world's largest seed.
The Double Coconut Palm is only found off the coast of South Africa in its native environment and produces what is believed to be the largest seed of any plant in the world weighing up to.
They had done nothing, however, to safeguard the 250, 000 accessions of seeds, roots, and fruits stored in the world's largest seed bank.
The fruit inside consists of three lobes with the largest of the three containing a large inedible seed.
The largest size of a seed bead is 1 ° (" one-aught ", sometimes written 1 / 0 ) and the smallest is 24 °, about the size of a grain of sand.
However, seed beads that are size 5 ° or 6 ° are usually called " pony beads " rather than " seed beads "; the next larger class of seed beads, from 3 ° to 4 °, are usually called " trade beads "; the largest class of seed beads, including 1 °, 2 °, and anything larger, are usually referred to as " crow beads.
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