7 Pollen cone with many juvenile microsporophylls

3 Ovulate cone at apical growth of macrosporophylls

4 Ovulate cone just before ovule initiation

1 Vegetative shoot apex

2 Ovulate cone at initiation of macrosporophylls

1： Leaf primordia at various developmental stages. This shoot apex is ２ mm in height.
2,3：Macrosporophylls are regularly arranged.
5：Outline of juvenile sporophylls are similar to that of mature ones.
7：Pollen cone is directly transformed from vegetative shoot apex. New vegetative shoot apex forms at the axil of a leaf.
8：Apex of ovulate cone is directly transformed into a vegetative shoot apex, which, in turn, eventually develops into an ovulate cone.
Scales：1 division = 1 mm,

Notes

5 Ovule primordia on macrosporophylls

8 Vegetative shoot apex surrounded by seed bearing spoorphylls