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Sequoiadendron giganteum
- Shoot with new female strobili
Very inconspicuous six visible in total, three arrowed.
Note yellow tinge.
All material on this page: late February.
Cultivated, UK.
(M. P. Frankіs).
Sequoiadendron giganteum
- Shoot with new female strobili
Left, tip of vegetative shoot;
Right, female strobilus.
Note yellow, and numerous slender scales.
Cultivated, UK.
(M. P. Frankіs).
Sequoiadendron giganteum
- Shoot with male strobili
Cultivated, UK.
(M. P. Frankіs).
Sequoiadendron giganteum
- Male strobilus
Note not quite yet shedding pollen.
Cultivated, UK.
(M. P. Frankіs).
Sequoiadendron giganteum
- Various cones.
Bottom right: 1-year old cone - smaller (but not by much) and yellowish;
Bottom left: 2-year old cone - full size, dark green;
Centre: two 4-year old cones - same size, slightly darker green;
Top left: 11-year old cone (measured by both whorl count on the branch and ring count on the cut branch) - same size, even darker green, fine bract scale tips eroded off with age.
Cultivated, UK.
(M. P. Frankіs).
