Beautiful pine cones

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Grand Canyon National Park In Arizona, USA

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Castle Fraser, Scotland 💫

Castle Fraser is one of the largest tower houses in Scotland, with a core that dates from as early as 1450.

The later additions made the building into the huge fortified structure it is today, and there are plenty of quirky features to discover - think hidden trapdoors, secret staircases and a spy hole.

The castle, which was a family home for more than four-hundred years, is filled with portraits, ornaments and mementos of the Frasers, all of which have their own colourful stories to tell about the lairds and ladies who once lived here.

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According to one version, pine (lat. Pinus) got its name from the Celtic word “pin”, which means “rock”, “mountain”, that is, “growing on rocks”, or from the Latin words “pix”, “ picis", which means "resin", that is, "resinous tree".

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And according to the ancient Greek myth, this plant bears the name of the nymph Pityos (Pythida), who was the beloved of the god Pan. .

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But Boreas, the god of the cold north wind, because of unrequited love, turned the nymph into a beautiful evergreen tree, called Pinus.

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Ben Nevis, Scotland 😯💚

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Pan was often depicted with a pine wreath on his head.

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Amazing landscape 😮🌫🗻

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CONE - reproductive organ of gymnosperms; a set of strobili. In the cone, sporophylls are arranged spirally on an elongated axis, usually in the form of scales, in the axils of which seeds develop.

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Reflection Canyon In Utah, USA
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The scales of female cones become lignified. Sometimes the term "bump" is used as a synonym for strobila

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A Gorgeous view of Utah, USA 🇺🇸🧡❤️
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Inveraray Castle, Scotland 🏰

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Ripe pine cones react sensitively to changes in ambient air humidity, opening at low air humidity and contracting at high air humidity. Therefore, where precise humidity measurement is not required, they can be used as a hygrometer