Can someone ID this?

[milehigh_7]

Everyone I work with knows I love trees. Someone put this little cone on my desk and I would really love to know what it is. Anyone care to take a stab at it? It is in a water bottle lid for scale.

 

[rockm]

Looks like an alder cone...

 

[milehigh_7]

Thanks! Looking around at some other images I believe you are correct. I have no idea where it came from, they don't grow here.

 

[Mac In Oak Ridge]

I don't think it alder. I think it be a pine cone from a Pinion Pine. From the area you live in I think more likely the ID.

 

[milehigh_7]

Pinion pine it is not. If there is one tree I know it is that one. The cone is about .5 - .75" long. The cap it is sitting in is a water bottle cap.