allergenic pine pollen cone |
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Soft and spongy "Male pine cones" release their pollen (gametophyte), which is like a powder and is carried around the air by blowing wind to another female pine cone on a different pine tree. Male pine cones are much smaller and live only for a short length of time, in the spring. |
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