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The name Pinus coulteri comes from Latin for pine, and coulteri comes from its discoverer Thomas Coulter (1793–1843), an Irish botanist and physician. [9] Pinus coulteri was discovered by Dr. Coulter on the mountains of Santa Lucia, near the Mission of San Antonio, in latitude 36°, within sight of the sea and at an elevation of from 3000 to 4000 feet above its level.
Overstory species include coulter pine, monterey pine, bishop pine, shore pine, and several endemic cypresses, species which generally rely on fire to open their cones and release seeds. Closed-cone forests often grow in low nutrient and/or stressed soils, which can lead to slow growth.
Young spring growth ("candles") on a loblolly pine: Monterey pine bark: Monterey pine cone on forest floor: Whitebark pine in the Sierra Nevada: Hartweg's pine forest in Mexico: The bark of a pine in Tecpan, Guatemala: A pine, probably P. pseudostrobus, in Guatemala
Coulter pine (Pinus coulteri) or; Gray pine (Pinus sabiniana) Common wildlife include Steller's jay, chestnut-backed chickadee, western gray squirrel, raccoon and many others. These forests are more diverse in animal life than those having only conifers. The predominance of broadleaf trees provide a greater abundance of food sources.
Since the range lies around 10–50 miles (16–80 kilometers) inland from the ocean, and other coastal ranges like the Santa Lucia Range and the Santa Cruz Mountains block incoming moisture, the range gets little precipitation. In addition, the average elevation of 3,000 feet (910 m) is not high enough to catch most of the incoming moisture at ...
The main trees of this habitat are Sargent cypress, MacNab cypress, Monterey pine, Knobcone pine and Bishop pine with California scrub oak. Small patches of coniferous forest are dominated by Ponderosa pine , Jeffrey pine , Sugar pine , Coulter pine , Coast Douglas-fir , incense-cedar , white fir and western juniper .
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Coulter pine (Pinus coulteri) Gray pine (Pinus sabiniana) Flora of the Northern Inner Coast Ranges was described by Willis Linn Jepson early on, he was one of the first to do so. He noted the presence of Yellow pine and Sugar pine species. [2] Other trees include Canyon live oak (Quercus chrysolepis).