Can you get a close-up pic of a stronger-growing shoot higher up in the tree? With these pics of short, slow-growing shoots it's hard to see if...
Might help to soak them in water for an hour or two before planting, and water them well if it's been dry.
And only going to get worse and worse with habitat destruction and global warming speeding up rapidly under the Trump dictatorship . . :-(
This has come up before - worth searching the forum archives. I remember reading somewhere (many years ago; I can't remember where, unfortunately)...
Glad to assist! These are pollen (i.e., male) cones.
Immature pollen cones, from something in the Cupressaceae; likely Western Redcedar if that's what you have in the area. The immature cones expand...
Wonder if any of those seedlings will turn out to be hybrids??
Probably Pinus reflexa (syn. Pinus strobiformis sensu Sudw., non Engelm.), though I'd like to see a mature seed cone to be sure.
Now if it had been Orangutan-sized, rather than just Orangutan-coloured . . .
Worked through from the top end so got to this one last! A cultivar of Mountain Pine (Pinus mugo).
A cultivar of Japanese White Pine (Pinus parviflora).
A cultivar of Mountain Pine (Pinus mugo).
It's got young cones on it, they'll be ripe in about 15-16 months. The light green new shoots look most like Japanese Red Pine (Pinus densiflora);...
A yellow cultivar of Hinoki Cypress Chamaecyparis obtusa.
Yes.
