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I believe you are referring to Lodgepole Pines

• quixoticelixer- 6y ago
  There are quite a large number of pines that do this.
  • DFHippie 6y ago
    Another example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_pine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_pine The general phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serotiny https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serotiny
    • keeganpoppen 6y ago
      oh wow thank you both for generalizing the phenomenon for me-- as an idahoan my world was a bit to small, I guess =)