# @nationalparktrust on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C04YPfrr0cH
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/10353028-nationalparktrust-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/5e41632eeb.jpg
- **Posted:** 2023-12-15T16:47:16.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** National Park Trust (@nationalparktrust) — https://gondola.cc/nationalparktrust

## Caption

Pinecones are not flowers, but they undoubtedly stand as a winter essential! Some cones can cling to a pine tree for a decade before maturing and dropping seeds. #DidYouKnow sugar pine trees can bear pinecones that can grow to 22 inches long! 

#Pinecones #PineTrees #WinterEssentials #SugarPine

📸: NationalParkService
Image 1 & 2: Pinecones in rockcreeknps 
Image 3: A youth camp participant measuring a pinecone against her arm in lassennps

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## Tags

sugarpine, winteressentials, pinetrees, pinecones, didyouknow

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