But the heat opened the serotinous cones and released seeds by the millions.

Some plants are serotinous and only disperse their seeds in response to an environmental stimulus.

Its cones are serotinous and require fire to open.

This species is strongly serotinous: seed is released only following a fire.

Heat budget and fire behaviour associated with the opening of serotinous cones in two Pinus species.

Many plants have adapted to this by having serotinous seeds that open to germinate only under high heat.

Nonserotinous trees may, however, have more seeds per cone than serotinous trees.

Flammability is also related to serotinous species such as Gamba Grass.

Only some pitch pines have serotinous cones.

The cones on mature trees are serotinous.

And because the fire is hotter, the serotinous cones get burned, so there are fewer seeds to start the whole cycle of growth."

At each sample point, the 12 nearest canopy lodgepole pines were classified as serotinous or nonserotinous.

The plants are not serotinous.

The model was also tested on recruitment of serotinous Pinus banksiana Lamb. within a burn.

After 1 year, jack pine seedfall from serotinous cones is complete and the opportunity for seedling establishment on ash has been lost.

Similarly, some Banksia species are strongly serotinous with respect to fire, but also release some seed in response to plant or branch death.

Serotinous adaptations have occurred in at least 530 species in 40 genera, which together constitute a paraphyletic group.

"And only certain plants can grow here, like the dwarf pine, which has a serotinous cone that has become dependent on fire to open it up."

The results showed that DBH is more strongly related than age or height to the appearance of the first serotinous cone.

Plants that retain all of their seed indefinitely in the absence of a trigger event are termed strongly serotinous.

Furthermore, fires may have accelerated afforestation by facilitating the spread of seeds of tree species with serotinous cones.

Most trees that did not bear any serotinous cones had not reached a DBH of 7 cm.

They, as well as some other pine species, have specialized serotinous cones that only open and disperse seeds with sufficient heat generated by fire.

Plants in fire related disturbance-dependent ecosystems can have serotinous pines, or they have a resin over their seeds to delay seed release.

It is weakly serotinous, like eight other Banksia species, all of which tend to occur in Western Australia's southwestern corner.