BOTANICAL NAME PINUS STROBUS PRONUNCIATION PIE nus STROBE
BOTANICAL NAME PINUS STROBUS
PRONUNCIATION PIE - nus STROBE - us
COMMON NAME Eastern White Pine
FAMILY Pinaceae
CLASSIFICATION Tree Conifer
ARRANGEMENT Needles - five in a fascicle
COMPOSITION Simple
MARGIN Serrated (finely toothed)
VEINS Parallel
LEAF Length 3” - 5” Width 1/16”
PLANT Evergreen Height 50’ - 80’ Width 20’ - 40’ Upright
TEXTURE Medium
FLOWER Spring Insignificant
FRUIT Fall Brown cone
EXPOSURE Sun
GROWTH Rapid
USE Specimen Border
DESCRIPTION Needles in fascicle of 5, bluish green, white stomata lines on the inner surfaces The bark is smooth
DESCRIPTION Limbs are in whorls Cone is 6” - 8” long, stalked, slender and tapering often curved Tip of scales never prickly
DESCRIPTION If Lynwood saw a plant with the word “Pinus” in the scientific name, what kind of plant would it be? Pine
DESCRIPTION A large evergreen tree has four to eight inch brown curving cones and needle-like leaves four inches long with five needles per cluster. What is the name of this tree? Eastern White Pine
Weeping
CULTURAL PRACTICES
PROBLEMS Pine Wilt Scale Blight
ZONES 3 - 8
NATIVE OF: Appalachian Mountains to Southern Canada
REFERENCES Manual of Woody Landscape Plants; Their Identification, Culture, and Use
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