Pine Trees || Amazing Fertility & Reproduction || Chinar Golf Club

There's a strange feeling of connectivity in these trunks of pine trees. Even the crowns of these trees are more connected but the symmetry and the sync is amazing, they all look the same. I can spend hours sitting beneath them, watching them in solace.

Although this golf club is named after another famous tree, the Chinar tree. Chinar and Pine's trees are famous in the mountain regions of Pakistan. Especially going towards Murree, Nathiya Gali, Bhurban, and so on, you can find fields full of these 2 trees along with some beautiful fruit trees as well. The real magic these chinar trees show you in the autumn season. Where deep green leaves of chinar may change to blood red, amber, and yellow, leaving us amazed by the majestic creation of the Almighty.

Another amazing thing about the creation of these pine trees the almighty has embedded in them is that in the field of 100 pine trees there's only one female tree, which is enough to fertile all the trees to give fruit. That's the main wow factor. The familiar pinecone is the reproductive structure of the pine tree. But pine trees produce two cones: a female cone and a male cone. Cones are modified stems that have been retasked for reproduction. The female cone, larger than the male cone, consists of a central axis and a cluster of scales, or modified leaves, called strobili.

The male cone produces tiny amounts of pollen grains that become the male gametophyte. Each pollen grain is reduced to two or three cells in a waxy protective coat. These grains have winglike structures that allow the wind to carry them up the tree to the female cones. Deep inside the female cone, ovules develop into the mature female gametophyte that bears fertile egg cells. When the egg cells are ready, the pollen grain enters the micropyle, an opening in the female cone near the ovule. The pollen grain germinates and constructs a unique pollen tube so that fertilization can take place. One of the two male gametes produced by the pollen then fuses with the female egg cell. This union of gametes produces an embryo of the sporophyte generation. The embryo is protected inside the cone by a tough seed coat, which is surrounded by a papery wing case. Later the scales open up and the seeds are blown away by the wind. Under favorable conditions, the seed germinates and grows into a new pine tree.

Isn't this amazing?

Photo Credits: Bilal Khan || Photo Taken at Chinar Golf Club, Murree

Video Credits: Samia Khan || Video shot at suburbs of Golf Club, Murree

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