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Pinus strobus, commonly called the eastern white pine, northern white pine, white pine, Weymouth pine (British), and soft pine [2] is a large pine native to eastern North America.
Western white pine is a large tree, regularly growing to 30–50 metres (98–164 ft) tall. It is a member of the white pine group, Pinus subgenus Strobus, and like all members of that group, the leaves ('needles') are in fascicles (bundles) of five, [5] with a deciduous sheath.
Pinus monticola - Western white pine; Pinus muricata - Bishop pine; Pinus ponderosa (syn. P. washoensis) - Ponderosa pine; Pinus radiata - Monterey pine, radiata pine; Pinus remota - Texas pinyon, papershell pinyon; Pinus sabineana - Gray pine, foothill pine, digger pine; Pinus strobiformis - Southwestern white pine; Pinus torreyana - Torrey pine
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, [4] 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 ...
Pine trees are evergreen, coniferous resinous trees (or, rarely, shrubs) growing 3–80 metres (10–260 feet) tall, with the majority of species reaching 15–45 m (50–150 ft) tall. [7] The smallest are Siberian dwarf pine and Potosi pinyon , and the tallest is an 83.45 m (273.8 ft) tall sugar pine located in Yosemite National Park .
A mix of oak and pine tree species dominate the canopy, typically chestnut oak (Quercus prinus), Virginia pine (Pinus virginiana), and white pine (Pinus strobus), but sometimes white oak (Quercus alba) or scarlet oak (Quercus coccinea). Varying amounts of oaks and pines can result in oak forests, mixed oak–pine forests, or small pine forests.
The pines were mainly planted in areas where the same species used to grow, and the saplings were guarded and looked after by local forestry authorities.They looked like the other Mount Hua pines ...
Limber pine (Pinus flexilis), another of these species from western North America, was also sometimes known as White Pine; Chinese white pine (Pinus armandii), a species native to China; Japanese white pine (Pinus parviflora), a species native to Japan; Vietnamese white pine (Pinus dalatensis), a species native to Vietnam and Laos; Pinus ...