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The ripened pistillate ament is called a strobile and bears tiny winged nuts, packed in the protecting curve of each brown and woody scale. These nuts are pale chestnut brown, compressed, crowned by the persistent stigmas.
Notes: Each spring its dioecious (staminate (male) flowers and pistillate (female) flowers on different trees) produce pollen bearing cones that hang like catkins about 1.2-2.2cm long. The trees flower olny after they are 25 years old.
 See also: Plant, Species, Fruit, Tree, Bark
  
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