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Pinus jeffreyi is a large coniferous evergreen tree, reaching 25 to 40 meters (82 to 131 ft) tall, rarely up to 53 m (174 ft) tall, though smaller when growing at or near tree line. [5] The leaves are needle-like, in bundles of three, stout, glaucous gray-green, 12 to 23 centimeters ( to 9 in) long. The cones are 12 to 25 cm ( to in) long, [6 ...
List of. Pinus. species. Pinus, the pines, is a genus of approximately 111 extant tree and shrub species. The genus is currently split into two subgenera: subgenus Pinus ( hard pines ), and subgenus Strobus ( soft pines ). Each of the subgenera have been further divided into sections based on chloroplast DNA sequencing [1] and whole plastid ...
Pinus ponderosa is a large coniferous pine ( evergreen) tree. The bark helps distinguish it from other species. Mature to overmature individuals have yellow to orange-red bark in broad to very broad plates with black crevices. [13] Younger trees have blackish-brown bark, [13] referred to as "blackjacks" by early loggers.
Description. Red pine is a coniferous evergreen tree characterized by tall, straight growth. [6] It usually ranges from 20–35 metres (66–115 feet) in height and 1 m (3 ft 3 in) in trunk diameter, exceptionally reaching 43.77 m ( ft) tall. [7] The crown is conical, becoming a narrow rounded dome with age.
The pinyon or piñon pine group grows in southwestern North America, especially in New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and Utah. The trees yield edible nuts, which are a staple food of Native Americans, and widely eaten as a snack and as an ingredient in New Mexican cuisine. The name comes from the Spanish pino piñonero, a name used for both the ...
Pinus lambertiana (commonly known as the sugar pine or sugar cone pine) is the tallest and most massive pine tree, and has the longest cones of any conifer. The species name lambertiana was given by the Scottish botanist David Douglas , who named the tree in honour of the English botanist, Aylmer Bourke Lambert .
Pinus albicaulis is the only type of tree on the summit of Pywiack Dome in Yosemite National Park. Pinus albicaulis, known by the common names whitebark pine, white bark pine, white pine, pitch pine, scrub pine, and creeping pine, is a conifer tree native to the mountains of the western United States and Canada, specifically subalpine areas of the Sierra Nevada, Cascade Range, Pacific Coast ...
Pinus serotina, the pond pine, black bark pine, bay pine, marsh pine, or pocosin pine, [2] is a pine tree found along the Southeastern portion of the Atlantic coastal plain of the United States, from southern New Jersey south to Florida and west to southern Alabama. [3] Pond pine distribution may be starting to spread west towards Mississippi ...