Spruce Cones

Identifier3.24628

TypeDrawing

Date created1943

DescriptionIllustration of 3 spruce cones, 2 false cypress cones, 3 fir cones, and 4 larch cones, created to accompany "The Cones of The Arboretum" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Identifying text originally adhered to board has detached and is no longer present.

Pine cones depicted, from left to right, top to bottom:

[Original header (not included with art): SPRUCE CONES are pendent, thin scaled]

• Norway spruce -- Picea abies
• Colorado spruce -- Picea pungens
• White spruce -- Picea glauca
• White cedar false cypress -- Chamaecyparis thyoides
• Sawara false cypress -- Chamaecyparis pisifera

[Original subhead (not included with art): FIR CONES are upright, with thin scales that fall off]

• Douglas fir -- Pseudotsuga taxifolia
• Balsam fir -- Abies balsamea
• White fir -- Abies concolor

[Original subhead (not included with art): LARCH CONES are stalked, thin-scaled]

• European larch -- Larix decidua
• Tamarack -- Larix laricina
• Arbor vitae -- Thuja occidentalis
• Canada hemlock -- Tsuga canadensis

Appeared InMorton Arboretum Bulletin Of Popular Information, Vol. 18, no. 12, p. 67.