strobile

Males produce clouds of windblown pollen from tiny conelike strobiles in spring.

Fertile flowers in catkins, consisting of numerous open spirally imbricated carpels in the form of scales, each scale in the axil of a thin persistent bract; in fruit forming a strobile or cone.

The glands obtained from the strobiles are known in pharmacy as lupulin, a name which tends to confusion with that of the alkaloid.

Strobiliformis means fir-cone form; so called from the similarity of its undeveloped form to that of the strobile of the pine.

In the strobile of the hop, Humulus Lupulus, a like elongation may sometimes be met with, generally in association with a more or less leafy condition of some of the scales.