There’s a strange thing certain pine trees do that looks, at first glance, like a design flaw. Their cones — called serotinous cones — stay sealed shut with a thick layer of resin for years, sometimes decades, refusing to release a single seed under normal conditions. Only intense heat, the kind produced by a genuine forest fire, melts that resin enough to finally crack the cones open. This means the very fire that appears to destroy the forest — blackening trunks, reducing years of growth to ash — is simultaneously the one event capable of triggering the next generation of trees.
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