The use of pine cones is to eat pine nuts, but our side of the muffin for some reason, no seeds. The first time I sold SOL to the market, I purposely went to the mountain to collect them, but unfortunately, when I opened the SOLG, it was only as big as a grain of rice, and not at all like the kind sold in the market, so no wonder it's so expensive locally. But this should be the problem of pine tree species. Otherwise, we are here throughout the mountains and rivers, specializing in collecting pine cones can be rich. Pine cones are the fruit of the pine tree plant. The pine tree is an evergreen tree, evergreen in all seasons, with a variety of species, there are about 80 kinds of pine trees in the world. The ones that grow naturally in the wild in my rural area are the "Horsetail" pine variety and the "Black Pine" pine variety, which were introduced when people returned farmland to the forest.

Both are pine cones. To say we have any use for them here. That is to say, people used to pick up the fallen pine cones and go home as firewood, but nowadays the countryside uses fewer clay stoves and no one picks up the pine cones to burn as firewood, so the fallen pine cones are also allowed to rot slowly in the wild by the wind and the sun. Although the pine cones of these two kinds of pine trees do not have any use value to us, but these two kinds of pine trees are very popular, you can use the farmland as a forest or afforestation of the ideal species, black pine can be modeled in the garden, very beautiful.

Not far from my area on the new farm shelf grows a pine species called "white pine", this pine knot pine cones are very popular. Because there are pine trees in the pine cones. Pine nuts are delicious. Too expensive commonly a pound of pine nuts when you buy 50 ~ 60 yuan, buy a brand of pine nuts to buy a hundred dollars a pound, eat when the heartache. Pine nuts are pine tree seeds pine nuts nutritious, containing fat, protein, carbohydrates, etc., eat pine nuts can be strong body, moisturize the skin, prolong longevity, has a high food value. No pine nuts pine forest area, most of our mountain villages are warmed by fire in winter. After dinner, families sit leisurely, burning the fire, smelling the unique aroma of pine resin in the flames, lively and intimate. The two most common types of pine trees in our small mountain village are the Yunnan Pine and the Huashan Pine.

The Yunnan Pine is wild and contains the largest seed with wings on it, which looks like a tadpole and is rarely eaten. I ate it when I was a kid, the shell is hard with little meat, and it's no fun to knock it a few times. The one that must be collected every year is the Volcanic Pine. Huge protected forests of Huashan pine are planted in the hills around our little mountain village. When the mouth of the pine forest begins to ripen and turn lime green, the villagers go to the pine forest to collect them, dry them in the yard, and sunbathe them until the mouth of the pine forest cracks, and until the sun wobbles around, and the pine nuts come out of their own accord.