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Skunk cabbage, I suspect.
July 16, 2012 at 11:45 am
I would surmise that they are immature pine cones.
July 16, 2012 at 12:01 pm
Could it be the fruit of Skunk-cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus)?
July 16, 2012 at 12:12 pm
Are they posed, or is that how they were found?
July 16, 2012 at 12:22 pm
I believe that is how they were found, Kathie.
July 16, 2012 at 4:26 pm
Undeveloped pitch pine cones?
July 16, 2012 at 12:48 pm
My first guess would be that it’s related to cones of some evergreen. Aren’t there scrub pines in that neck of the woods?
July 16, 2012 at 1:10 pm
I believe scrub pines are found throughout Massachusetts, Jan.
July 16, 2012 at 4:28 pm
whatever they are, they are quite small …
July 16, 2012 at 1:37 pm
Is it a fruit from a tree relative to the osage orange?
July 16, 2012 at 1:39 pm
Immature pine cones?
July 16, 2012 at 2:30 pm
Looks like a pine cone to me.
July 16, 2012 at 2:39 pm
I would guess fruit of a skunk cabbage
July 16, 2012 at 6:42 pm
Is it “old man of/in the woods?
July 16, 2012 at 10:03 pm
I think it is a cone of some kind.
July 17, 2012 at 2:39 am
Looks like Symplocarpus foetidus
July 17, 2012 at 11:40 am