You could post pics of some of your pinecones and entice people to grow the trees the pinecones come from...

Where are you located? We used to have a poster named Resin who had quite a collection who may have offered some tips for you. Perhaps he'll see this.

tj

It would be easier to read the list if each species were on its own line. You may be able to edit it and just add returns.

Needed:

Virginia Pine -Pinus virginiana

Slash Pine -Pinus elliottii

Rocky Mountain Bristlecone -Pinus aristata

Pinyon Pine -Pinus edulis

Monkey Puzzle -Araucaria araucana

Longleaf Pine -Pinus palustris

Great Basin Bristlecone

-Pinus longaeva

Cyprian Cedar -Cedrus brevifolia

Italian Stone Pine -Pinus pinea

Bristlecone Pine -Pinusa aristata

Bishop Pine -Pinus muricata

Chihuahua Pine -Pinus leiophylla

Foxtail Pine -Pinus balfouriana

Torrey Pine -Pinus torreyana

Whitebarki Pine -Pinus albicaulis

Chihuahua Spruce -Picea chihuahuana

Red Fir -

@tsugajunkie I live in Portland, OR. I hope so!

@NHBabs Good point, copied from my excel spreadsheet and it did not transcribe properly. On mobile so it saved and then would not allow for editing. Apologies for that! Ha. :c

Well my husband just came home from a work conference in Atlanta, GA. We are from "Pure Michigan" & have more pinetrees than you can believe! I don't know if you need any that grow here. But if you do, I'd be glad to get you what you need? That's not the funny part though. The part I started to tell you about the husband coming home from the conference. With him he did bring a giant pine cone! They stayed in cabins as it was agricultural trip on a ranch. Quite a famous Ranch there but I can't remember the name right now. I think White Oak Ranch. Anyway he brought this giant pine cone home and I'm impressed but not attached LOL. So if you happen to need one from Atlanta. I'd be glad to give it to you.

Half of those live within a day's drive of Portland and a few of them are pretty common landscape trees in Oregon. Why don't you just go get them?

For example, my favorite accessible Pinus albicaulis grove is in a wayside on the east end of the Crater Lake loop.

@sjcarmichael Haha, I wonder what it could be?! Trying to think of large cones from conifers in Georgia. Interest piqued!

@glaciers_end I've been searching quite extensively, but there are quite a few of these that will not grow in Oregon. I've hunted a few down around here, but I am at a loss to where groves of the others might be located.

A bunch of those are in Hoyt arboretum. I've seen them.

There was at least a few of the listed pines on this link that Sara posted a short time ago. http://conifersociety.org/blog/photos-from-conifer-road-trip/

@glaciers_end That's interesting, I'm a tour guide there and I volunteer about 15 hours a month for trail clearing, none of those are there. Sure there's a fledgling Pinyon and a very young Bristlecone, but not cone bearing. The Monkey Puzzle and the Italian Stone do not produce cones, and the only Stone Pine fell with this last snowstorm. It's a shame.

Thank you Bill!

It's the Araucaria araucana that I can't wrap my brain around. It's one of the most commonly planted landscape trees in WA and OR. There are literally thousands of them planted within an hour of your location.

Similar situation with P. aristata, although it's not as common as the Araucaria. UW campus in Seattle has a small grouping of them near Husky stadium that cone pretty consistently.

In my mind I can picture the huge Cedrus brevifolia @Hoyt. I know it's there. If you're going to go to Seattle to get some P. aristata, Washington Park arboretum has a few as well.

I already mentioned the P. albicaulis grove at Crater Lake national park.

For Picea balfouriana, I recommend a short hike along the Pacific Crest Trail outside of Weed, CA (a day's drive from Portland). Look up the Mt. Eddy trail. Lots of them on the west flanks of Mt. Eddy just past Deadfalls lakes. Totally flat hiking until the last little bit up to the pines. That one typically grows at high altitude. This is the most accessible grove I'm aware of.

For Pinus torryana, you simply have to go to San Diego; it's a super-rare tree. Although cone collecting is forbidden in the Torrey pines preserve, there's a sub-park very close to the main park where we had lunch with the ACS a couple years ago. No rangers and several big trees where we got lots of Torrey cones.

Pinus longeava. Granted, California's White mountains are a bit of a haul from Portland (2-day's journey), but it's a bucket list kind of place for any Conehead. Why wouldn't you make the time at any cost to visit the Schulman grove and spend a day walking around with those ancient wonders?

Thank you glaciers_end. Your list helps out quite a bit! I've searched Portland for the Araucaria and, despite finding quite a few, have come up with only one bearing cones. It was tucked away within somebody's property in the Southeast. The Cedrus at Hoyt is impressive, but, as a finicky cedar, it has never produced cones that are able to be collected due to fracturing. I suppose that I was just lucky to have gotten an Atlas Cedar when a large frozen cone fell. Haha! I cannot wait to hunt down those that you have highlighted!