Language (Pinus shade)
Appearance: A stately coniferous tree, reaching a height of over 20 m, and even 35 meters, Columnar crown with a blunt top, at old trees (especially in free standing people) seems a bit irregular. Branches relatively short, but very compact, they usually stick out horizontally. Younger twigs at the ends of the branches go up steeply.
The bark is initially smooth, greenish-gray, later it becomes rougher and more flaky, with resin bubbles in places, in old age it is brownish with wide reddish furrows. Greenish shoots, densely pubescent. Conical buds, slowly tapering towards the apex.
Length pins 5-8 cm are collected in bunches of five on shoots, Pretty stiff, they stand up straight, focused especially on the ends of the twigs. Dark green on top, on the inside, rather gray-green and blue-white stripes of longitudinally arranged stomata.
Male flowers in the purple-brown flowering season, Female cones initially greenish-purple, later brown-purple and dark brown at the time of ripening, about 5-8 cm in length, on short, strong peduncles. Round cones scales, they do not descend individually.
Habitat: Limba prefers sour, humus rocky soils in 2rm regions. continental climate. I need a lot of little world
Occurrence: Originally it grew wild only in the Central Alps and the Carpathians. Currently more widespread, but mainly in areas located from 1700 do 3000 m n.p.m. Flowering period: May to June.
General thoughts: Limba is planted in parks and gardens almost rarely, however, it is not unconditionally related to the mountain climate, on the other hand, it has an advantage in competition with other woody pine species. For this reason, pine trees are planted in the forests of Scandinavia (mainly in Norway), Limba is the only 5-pin species of the genus Pinus, wild in Central Europe. Moreover, it reaches the highest age of all European species: up to a thousand years. Magnificent limb stands can be found, for example, in the Swiss National Park in Graubünden. In Poland, beautiful specimens can be seen in the Tatra Mountains, Big slightly winged seeds, botanically not quite correctly called limb nuts, are edible. You can get them out of the collected cones by heating them in a moderately hot oven – then the scales will open themselves, Initially clear, and later, strongly darkening lime wood has great technical and economic value. Due to its homogeneous structure, it is perfect for turning and woodcarving work, it is also used to build houses.