Mature female Pinus coulteri cone

Female Fir cone

Young cones of a Colorado Blue Spruce

Juniper "berries", which are used to flavor gin, are actually modified cones.

Male cone of Cedar of Lebanon

A cone (or pine cone) is an organ on plants in the division Pinophyta (conifers) that contains the reproductive structures. It is the part of a tree that lets the tree reproduce. Its formal name in botany is strobilus, plural strobili.

The familiar woody cone is the female cone, which produces seeds. The male cones, which produce pollen, are usually smaller and much less conspicuous even at full maturity. The individual plates of a cone are known as scales.