Weymouth pine (Pine strobe)
Appearance: A stately coniferous evergreen tree, reaching a height of approx 50 m, in the home area up to 80 meters, The crown of young trees is still narrow, conical, later more and more irregular with bent and twisted branches. At the end of life, the crown is very flat as the branches growing below die off. Black-reddish bark, slightly wrinkled and with distinct darker furrows and features, Very slender young shoots. Resin donuts, squat, ovate quite clearly pointed.
Pins collected in bunches of five on shoots, about 5-15 cm in length, quite slim and flexible, sharpened at the front, bluish-green, and very delicately serrated at the edges,
Female long cones 6-20 cm, usually a bit lopsided. The scales of the cones are quite loose, thin, smooth, clear-brown, resinous – strikingly large compared to the length of the entire cone. Occurrence: Originally it only grew in the eastern part of North America (from New Funtandi to Georgia). In Europe, many areas are grown in forests or planted as a park tree.
Flowering period: From April to May Related species:
Macedonian pine (Pinus peucej is distinguished by a wide columnar and always compact crown (fot. on p, 46), In young trees, the bark is gray-green. Dark green or gray-green pins, very densely placed, five on the shoots. It grows in the mountains of the Balkan Peninsula, in the floor from 600 do 2000 m n.p.m. At the small-flowered pine (Pinus parvif!oraf the pins gathered in bunches of five are at most 6-B cm long and clearly twisted (fot. on p. 46}. This species comes from Japan, where it is also found as bonsai, that is, an artificially grown dwarf tree.
In the group of three-pronged pines, yellow pine (A heavy pine tree) is an economically important producer of wood (fot. on p. 47), The bark of young trees is gray-pink and smooth, later, however, more and more cracked. Quite strong momentum, light brown or reddish, Flat pins, approx 20 cm, quite stiff, rounded front, on shoots clustered at the ends of the twigs, Ripe brown female cones, oval, about 9×5 centimeters. Scales of cones with strong, thorny and protruding processes, It is a massive tree up to approx 70 m. originally it grew wild only in the Coastal Mountains in western North America. Jeffrey pine is similar to it (Pinusleffreyi), which pins – three per shoot – they are even harder and stiffer, and tinged with blue-gray or gray-green. The most important identification feature: u P. ponderosa young shoots are brownish or greenish, u P. jefire- always clearly blue and white, as if "frosted."”, Large cones, approx 12 x8 cm usually weigh over 500 g. Jeffrey Pine is native to the southwestern regions of North America.