Pine Flowers are a Unique Form of Flower

This week's featured art is Pine Flowers 

Pine Flowers  by Rich Collins — View Larger

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Not every flower in nature is a blistering red, yellow or blue. As you can see a fair number of Genus and species take a different approach. This is a Pinus or Pine tree. Flowers are the stage which represent that development prior to seeds, or in this case, cones, which in most species attract pollinators. That seed production becomes far more productive by attracting all insects which find the pistol and stamen as a source of food, thereby fertilizing for a much higher seed production in order to off survival of the species. Instead Pine trees do not offer that but instead are wind pollinated and these conifers are carried to female cones which then produce seedlings after they fall to the ground and rain comes along. So pine trees are a rather special form of flower, that is not recognized by those looking for the showy ones we are used to clipping off for bouquets. And while no other insects visit pine trees for pollination purposes, honeybees often do as a source of resin which leaks for sealing off their new bee cells and their hives.