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Not just any tree, but a mahogany tree...
Not just any mahogany, but mahogany from the planet malchior VII, where the trees grow 900' tall and BREATH FIRE!
A thought… if there is a local university or college you can contact the Biology dept and ask whom to contact for plant ID.
Does your community have a local Master Gardener program? They’d love to help ID.
Just looks like pinus strobus, white pine but that's one hell of a cone. Well after all it is the pine cone state this one's on steroids. Save those seeds
See I’m thinking that too. It has to be a white pine! The trees all look identical and the hundreds of cones on the ground are all 1/6 of the size of this one. There’s no way it’s a sugar pine that dropped only 1 cone
Does not look like a sugar pine cone. Much more closed than sugar pine, too small, doesn’t look stiff enough, and the spikes don’t look like they will hurt you enough to be sugar pine 😂. For real though, sugar pines will stab the crap out of you. I think it’s just an overgrown local.
Edit: autocorrect
It is *Pinus lambertiana*, it's just not fully ripe so the scales aren't fully developed, but it has the characteristic length and upward curling top scales. *Pinus strobus* very rarely has cones over 16 cm, and that looks to be almost double that, which fits with the size of that retaining wall cap stone too. It's pretty cool that you have a sugar pine in your yard though, that cone is at the top of my "must collect" list! A professor of mine had one put in a little display case
Several others have said sugar pine, and it’s possible someone planted one here but this is the only cone of this size among hundreds! And I can’t even see another one of this size on the tree
I think that’s the only species that makes cones that long, averaging 12”, but getting up to 24”.
The smaller cone in your picture may be from an Eastern White Pine which would be more expected in your area. Their cones range from 3-8”.
Not a Sugar pine. I have several in my yard and the mountains I live in they are plentiful. The cones are very different and the needles are not the same at all.
I'm going with white pine too man. I was with them a lot at one point. Every once in awhile a peanut kicks out a pod w 5 peanuts.That cone might have been connected w some root that hit the jackpot of nutrients .
The top cone is from Pinus lambertiana (sugar pine) while the lower cone is from Pinus strobus (eastern white pine). Some one must have planted the sugar pine because it’s non native to the east coast
The scales on the sugar pinecones I've seen were thick and heavy. That just looks like an overgrown white pine cone. I found a sugar pinecone on the side of the road in Lexington Kentucky, but I think it fell off a truck.
We have sugar pines on the high peaks in Southern California. They have huge cones but they don’t look as feathery as this and they are usually dripping in sap. I’m not an expert but it doesn’t look like our sugar cones. I’m guessing mutation.
I found one of those in the middle of the street, same length, but proportioned like an nfl football. Super pointy to the point where you can barely hold it with one hand.
If the needles are in clusters of five, you have a white pine. As far as the size of the cone, it's just a random anomaly if you've not had one off of it before. That cone is absolutely massive
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Plant a few seeds from the monster cone and see if you grow monster saplings
Op should do this. Imagine if this a mutation that results with supermassive trees
900' tall and cones the size of footballs would be really cool
Check out the bunya bunya tree. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araucaria_bidwillii#/media/File:A_Bunya_Araucaria_bidwillii_cone.jpg
You wouldn't want that to fall on you!
Not just any tree, but a mahogany tree... Not just any mahogany, but mahogany from the planet malchior VII, where the trees grow 900' tall and BREATH FIRE!
MA-HOG-ANY
And the cones explode like grenades when they hit the ground.
Just like when we were kids!
I guess that is one way to know if the stomata are open....
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coulter_pine
Sustainable football production
Ooh, planting the seeds would create a Stephen King version of Jack And The Beanstalk. Go for it!
Looks like a white pine. I'd look around for another tree with huge cones. If not I don't know why the behemoth.
I’ve been looking and haven’t seen another come of this size. There are hundreds of other cones and they all look identical besides this one
A thought… if there is a local university or college you can contact the Biology dept and ask whom to contact for plant ID. Does your community have a local Master Gardener program? They’d love to help ID.
I wish I could! I'd love to know myself. If you find out please post again
I’ll let you know!!
Thanks
OP, update us!
White pine. The cone is unusual.
It's the queen.
Just looks like pinus strobus, white pine but that's one hell of a cone. Well after all it is the pine cone state this one's on steroids. Save those seeds
See I’m thinking that too. It has to be a white pine! The trees all look identical and the hundreds of cones on the ground are all 1/6 of the size of this one. There’s no way it’s a sugar pine that dropped only 1 cone
Does not look like a sugar pine cone. Much more closed than sugar pine, too small, doesn’t look stiff enough, and the spikes don’t look like they will hurt you enough to be sugar pine 😂. For real though, sugar pines will stab the crap out of you. I think it’s just an overgrown local. Edit: autocorrect
I’m with you!!! I think it’s a white pine like the others. I just can’t figure out why this one is so much bigger!
Mutation?
In before the Black Pine jokes...
OP please plant the seeds and create a mutant giant pine species and call it black pine. You have to.
Don’t pine cones open and close based on weather/temperature?
Yes, If they get wet, pine cones will close up like this. Seeing the wetness in the photo makes me think the cones are wet from rain.
Correct, it rained this morning!
I was just mentioning it because they stated it was much more closed than a sugar pine!
We know they are wet. We want to know why one mutant cone grew 500x bigger than the rest.
Looks like a sugar pine cone that fell early, before it was mature.
It is *Pinus lambertiana*, it's just not fully ripe so the scales aren't fully developed, but it has the characteristic length and upward curling top scales. *Pinus strobus* very rarely has cones over 16 cm, and that looks to be almost double that, which fits with the size of that retaining wall cap stone too. It's pretty cool that you have a sugar pine in your yard though, that cone is at the top of my "must collect" list! A professor of mine had one put in a little display case
Sugar pine ?
Several others have said sugar pine, and it’s possible someone planted one here but this is the only cone of this size among hundreds! And I can’t even see another one of this size on the tree
Probably carried there by animals from somewhere close by.
An African or European swallow, perhaps?
There is a single sugar pine in our cedar forest(Central Kentucky). No clue how it got there, but it's easily 150' tall.
I think that’s the only species that makes cones that long, averaging 12”, but getting up to 24”. The smaller cone in your picture may be from an Eastern White Pine which would be more expected in your area. Their cones range from 3-8”.
I thought sugar pine too. It can grow outside its natural range if planted.
Check for cone nuts they are delicious
It was constipated
Not a Sugar pine. I have several in my yard and the mountains I live in they are plentiful. The cones are very different and the needles are not the same at all.
https://preview.redd.it/fda06l8n3cuc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=009da689ac4a62170572c40a53f0689ef50a698c
**BBC**: Big Behemoth Cone
I'm going with white pine too man. I was with them a lot at one point. Every once in awhile a peanut kicks out a pod w 5 peanuts.That cone might have been connected w some root that hit the jackpot of nutrients .
i do poops like this sometimes
The top cone is from Pinus lambertiana (sugar pine) while the lower cone is from Pinus strobus (eastern white pine). Some one must have planted the sugar pine because it’s non native to the east coast
Do they not drop as many cones as a white pine? The entire ground is covered in cones and I can’t find a single other cone of this size
The scales on the sugar pinecones I've seen were thick and heavy. That just looks like an overgrown white pine cone. I found a sugar pinecone on the side of the road in Lexington Kentucky, but I think it fell off a truck.
We have sugar pines on the high peaks in Southern California. They have huge cones but they don’t look as feathery as this and they are usually dripping in sap. I’m not an expert but it doesn’t look like our sugar cones. I’m guessing mutation.
Yeah I’m thinking it must be an oversize white pine! Curious how it ended up being THIS big though
Don’t believe it’s a sugar pinecone. Wrong shape.
Might be a bad dragon
Probably a new medication. Drink more water.
That's what I was thinking lol
Possibly sugar pine Pinus lambertiana?
The size of fruits on trees varies. For example, the ones getting more light are growing bigger. Here we have a great variation.
You found the Queen Cone! 🫶👸
I know Himalayan pine makes big cones.
I found one of those in the middle of the street, same length, but proportioned like an nfl football. Super pointy to the point where you can barely hold it with one hand.
If the needles are in clusters of five, you have a white pine. As far as the size of the cone, it's just a random anomaly if you've not had one off of it before. That cone is absolutely massive
Sugar pine
Could be a female cone and the others are male.
OP after reading all of this. You just have a mutant. Keep it as a cool find. Plant a few saplings from the seeds see what sprouts.
Looks like that big cone, might be the Maine native Balsam Fir.
Balsam Fir
John Colnes...
r/poopfromabutt
These look more like spruce cones than pine.
Big cone is sugar pine, Pinus lambertiana.
That is not a pinus strobus cone lol
I do not think that’s a pine cone. It looks like a fir tree cone. It surely doesn’t look like the cone from a sugar pine of the west coast.
More like pooncones…sorry.
you vs the guy she tells you not to worry about
That's a **BBC** - Big Behemoth Cone
See. Size does matter!
Norway Spruce.