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The Swiss pine 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, with a deciduous sheath. The mature size is typically between 25 metres (82 ft) and 35 metres (115 ft) in height, and the trunk diameter can be up to 1.5 metres (4.9 ft).
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Pinus brutia - Turkish pine; Pinus canariensis - Canary Island pine; Pinus cembra - Swiss pine; Pinus halepensis - Aleppo pine; Pinus heldreichii - Bosnian pine; Pinus mugo - Mountain pine; Pinus nigra - European black pine, Austrian pine; Pinus peuce - Macedonian pine; Pinus pinaster - Maritime pine; Pinus pinea - Stone pine; Pinus sylvestris ...
Pinus mugo, known as dwarf mountain pine, [4] mountain pine, scrub mountain pine, Swiss mountain pine, [5] bog pine, creeping pine, [6] or mugo pine, [7] is a species of conifer, native to high elevation habitats from southwestern to Central Europe and Southeast Europe.
In more continental-climate parts of the range, European larch (Larix decidua), arolla pine (Pinus cembra), and Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) replace Pinus mugo. Scots pine and Pinus mugo can form a hybrid pine Pinus × rhaetica. Black pine (Pinus nigra) occurs on some south facing slopes in the eastern part of the range.
Swiss Pines was established by Arnold Bartschi (1903-1996), who was a native of Switzerland who was, by the mid-1930s, owner of the J. Edwards Shoe Company. In 1957, he purchased the 200 acres (81 ha) of the former Llewellyn estate; during the next thirty years, he developed the Swiss Pines site. It became a nonprofit foundation in 1960.
The Arolla pine or Swiss pine, a high-altitude species in the white pine group, is named after the village and grows in the Alps and the Carpathians. [ 6 ] 46°01′N 7°29′E / 46.017°N 7.483°E / 46.017;
Alpine flora: Alpine azalea · Alpine rock-jasmine · Austrian pine · Dwarf pillow sedge · Dwarf willow · Edelweiss · Glacier crowfoot · Great yellow gentian · Hairy alpenrose · Mountain pine · Swiss pine · Wulfenia