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Can I report seeing both ‘Unripe seed cones’ and ‘Ripe seed cones’ on the same plant at the same time?

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Can I report seeing both ‘Unripe seed cones’ and ‘Ripe seed cones’ on the same plant at the same time?

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Yes, absolutely. There are many times when you will see both unripe and ripe seed cones on the same plant at the same time. In some species, seed cones take more than a full year to mature and you could be seeing ripe seed cones from a previous year’s crop at the same time you see unripe seed cones from this year’s crop. Or you may even see unripe cones from the previous AND current year’s crop at the same time. Just be careful not to count as “ripe” any empty cones that have already dropped all of their seeds but remain on the plant. This occurs quite frequently for some conifer species, but these empty seed cones should be ignored.

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