She took them to a beautiful tree that had many, many cones on it.

她把他们带到了一棵漂亮树前，树上有很多很多球果。

And milder fires actually help these trees reproduce because the heat causes their cones to release new seeds.

并且较温和火实际上有助于这些树繁殖，因为高温会让它们球果释放出新种子。

When the temperature warms up, they know it's time to sprout leaves and bloom, or develop seed cones.

当温度升高时，它们知道是时候发芽开了，或者是长出球果了。

Beth was sorting the cones that lay thick under the hemlock near by, for she made pretty things with them.

贝思正在附近铁杉树下密密球果中挑选，因为她用球果做成漂亮东西。

And it doesn't just eat the leaves, it also eats the buds, the flowers, and the cones on the tree here.

而且它不只是吃树叶，它还吃嫩芽、和树上球果。

And I like the part where the golden spruce cones turn into silver spruce cones.

而且我喜欢那个金色冷杉球果变成银色冷杉球果部分。

Cycads have cones with seeds that are directly fertilized by pollen.

苏铁有种子球果，这些种子会直接被粉 fertilize。

Then new trees grew from the cones to take their place.

然后，新树木从球果中长出， 取而代之。

The red seed cones are as fine as candles.

红色种子球果像蜡烛一样细。

The cones mature in a single season from the flowers.

球果在一个季节从中成熟。

Conifers have no flowers, but they have cones.

针叶树虽，却结球果。

These specialized structures of early gymnosperms weren't big cones like you'd see on a pine tree today.

这些早期裸子植物特化结构并不是像今天松树上看到那种大球果。

Along the rail fence the sumac held up its dark red cones of berries above bright flamecolored leaves.

沿着栅栏，漆树在鲜艳火焰色叶子上方高举着暗红色浆果球果。

But Nutkin sat upon a big flat rock, and played ninepins with a crab apple and green fir-cones.

但是 Nutkin 坐在一块平坦大石头上，用海棠和绿色冷杉球果玩九瓶。

The cones and seeds are like those of the magnifica in form but less than half as large.

球果和种子在形状上与放大镜相似， 但不到其一半大。

Unless harvested by the squirrels, the cones discharge their seed and remain on the tree for many years.

除非被松鼠收割， 否则球果会排出种子并留在树上很多年。

But as the tree's pine cones mature to release their twirling seeds, this signals a problem for the lodgepole's future.

然而， 当松树球果成熟并释放出旋转种子时，这预示着短叶松未来将面临问题。

On two small branches one and a half and two inches in diameter I counted 480 cones.

在两个直径分别为一英寸半和两英寸树枝上， 我数了数有 480 个球果。

Known technically as gymnosperms, they have needle-like leaves which are almost always evergreen and reproduce through exposed seeds nestled within cones.

它们在技术上被称为裸子植物， 有针状叶子， 几乎总是常绿，并通过球果内暴露种子进行繁殖。

Its cones hang down, not up, have scales that open rather than fall off, and have little extra scales that look like mouse butts.

它球果是向下生长，而非向上，鳞片是打开，而不是直接掉落，还额外长了些看起来像老鼠屁股一样鳞片。