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"Pinus nigra, 2018, [Austrian Black Pine], PYE-nus NYE-gruh, 60x40ft. #Conifer, USDA Hardiness Zone 4, Stiff dark green needles, Bloom Month --, In Garden Bed L3 for 4.3 YEARS (Lowe).
Medium to large conifer that is native from central and southeastern Europe to western Asia. 40-60’ tall over time (less frequently to 100’). Dense pyramidal habit in youth. Planted in 2013.
#Pinus #AustrianBlackPine
Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland
Ref: elmer.rbge.org.uk/bgbase/livcol/bgbaselivcol.php?cfg=bgba...
Global warming caused these alpine areas to become warmer, allowing for younger trees to establish. These smaller samplings are only about 50 years old whereas the acient ones are several thousand years old.
These trees are probably 3000-4000 years old. It is hard for a mere human to grasp that scale standing next to these ancient organisms.
Pinus caribaea var. hondurensis (Caribean pine)
Habit at Makawao Forest Reserve, Maui, Hawaii.
November 13, 2004
Un étonnant pin de l'Himalaya dont l'écorce rappelle celle d'un platane, dans le Parc de la Tête d'Or à Lyon.
Die Sonne streichelt alte Kiefer.............. - słońce pieści stare sosny...............
Sosna zwyczajna - Waldkiefer - Pinus sylvestris
This particular cultivar was found growing in a garden in France over 100 years ago.
Species from Europe and Asia
Photographed at Strybing Arboretum, San Francisco
This tree is more than 100 years old. But it misses its old days, the garden is too dry nowadays. Its death is approaching slowly...
Afghan Pine, usually 2 needles, Arboretum Conifer Collection, UC Davis, also considered a ssp of P. brutia
Scientific name: Pinus sylvestris
Common name: Scotch pine
Family: Pinaceae
This pine is easily recognized by its scaly, bright orange-red bark. The needles of the Scotch pine are gray to blue-green, and occur in bundles of two. The Scotch pine’s range extends across northern Europe and Asia, giving it the widest distribution of any pine in the world.
Sungai Buloh, Selangor, Malaysia.
3-needle pine. Stiff needle-shaped leaves ca. 15 to 25 cm long; ca. 1.5 mm width. Pinus caribaea Morelet. Pinaceae. CN: Caribbean pine, Nicaraguan pine, Pitch pine. Native to Mexico; Caribbean - Bahamas, Cuba; Mesoamerica - Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Turks and Caicos Islands; elsewhere cultivated in silviculture to overcome the international shortage of long-fibered wood for paper manufacturing. A medium-sized evergreen tree up to ca. 35 m or more; straight, cylindrical trunk and a rounded to pyramid-shaped crown. The lower branches are usually long, slender and drooping, while the upper branches often point upwards; bark is reddish-brown to greyish, and is divided by deep cracks into rough, irregularly-shaped plates; the needle-like leaves grow at the end of the twigs in bundles of three to five.
Synonym(s):
Pinus caribaea var. anomala Rowlee
Pinus caribaea var. caribaea
Pinus recurvata Rowlee
Ref. and suggested reading:
www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-2563099
GRIN archive.is/rE6s#selection-605.0-657.9
www.arkive.org/caribbean-pine/pinus-caribaea/
www.iucnredlist.org/details/42348/0