QUARRELWOODS SPYNIE GEO-WALK SCOTS PINE
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SCOTLANDS national tree.
FRUIT: Pine Cones
LEAVES: the needle-like leaves are blue-green and slightly twisted, and grow in pairs.
BARK. The bark is a scaly orange-brown, which develops plates and fissures with age.
INTERESTING FACTS:
- The needles on young trees grow longer than those on older trees.
- FLOWERS: Scots Pine is monoecious, meaning both male and female flowers grow on the same tree. Male flowers comprise clusters of yellow anthers at the base of shoots. Female flowers are small, red-purple and globular, and grow at the tips of new shoots.
- FRUITS after pollination by wind, the female flowers turn green and develop into cones. They mature the following season, so there are always cones of different ages on the one tree. Mature cones are grey-brown with a raised, circular bump at the centre of each scale.
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