Aug 8, 2023
Conifers Garden: Pinus flexilis - Limber pine description. Conifers of the World - buy rare conifers online, shipping worldwide.
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Japan
seen from Chile
seen from United States
seen from Russia
seen from Türkiye
seen from Malaysia
seen from Austria
seen from France
seen from Taiwan
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Netherlands
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Pakistan
seen from Singapore
seen from Netherlands
seen from Uzbekistan
seen from Brazil
Conifers Garden: Pinus flexilis - Limber pine description. Conifers of the World - buy rare conifers online, shipping worldwide.
Conifers Garden: Pinus flexilis - Limber pine description. Conifers of the World - buy rare conifers online, shipping worldwide.
Pinus flexilis - Limber pine. Conifers of the World - Conifer grafts, seedlings and cuttings. Online shopping, shipping worldwide.
Tree Rock, WY
What do you think about my pic?
Clark's nutcracker (Nucifraga columbiana), gathering limber pine seeds (Pinus flexilis), near the Alfa Fia Tank, Coconino National Forest, Arizona. Nutcrackers are large birds, a little bigger than jays.
The bottom photo shows the bird's crop full of seeds. They will hide thousands of pine seeds each season, and somehow maintain remarkably accurate mental maps of their caches' locations. The few seeds they forget become an important mechanism for starts of new pine seedlings.
Etymology note: A very straightforward derivation for the genus, from Latin nucis for nut, and frangere, meaning to break (and also the root of the words fragment and fraction).