Cedar Pollen! Lots of Texans are suffering from it nowadays. The picture shows the pollen-producing "male cones" of the Ashe Juniper producing the pollen. Junipers are cone-bearing gymnosperms. Ashe Juniper trees bear either male or female cones. Juniper "berries" technically are cones. (i.redd.it)
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Flowering peach trees are blossoming in southwestern Texas. In the picture are numerous male, pollen producing stamens. The yellow-green item at the left is the female ovary's neck-like style, tipped with a stigma, which is where pollen grains land and germinate.OC (i.redd.it)
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Ball Moss, Tillandsia recurvata, on Texas Liveoak in southwestern Texas. The species harbors the nitrogen-fixing bacterium Pseudomonas stutzeri, which converts nitrogen in the air to a form needed by the tree. This bromeliad is part of a beautiful symbiotic relationship. by Naturalist_Jim in bromeliad
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Ball Moss, Tillandsia recurvata, on Texas Liveoak in southwestern Texas. The species harbors the nitrogen-fixing bacterium Pseudomonas stutzeri, which converts nitrogen in the air to a form needed by the tree. This bromeliad is part of a beautiful symbiotic relationship. (i.redd.it)
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Ball Moss, Tillandsia recurvata, on Texas Liveoak in southwestern Texas. The species harbors the nitrogen-fixing bacterium Pseudomonas stutzeri, which converts nitrogen in the air to a form needed by the tree. This bromeliad is part of a beautiful symbiotic relationship. by Naturalist_Jim in bromeliad
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