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The bark is thick, grayish-brown, and scaly plated at the base of the trunk, and orange-red, thin, and flaking higher on the trunk. The leaves are needle-like, dark green, with two per fascicle, 12–20 centimetres ( 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 –8 inches) long and 0.8–1 millimetre ( 1 ⁄ 32 – 3 ⁄ 64 in) wide, the persistent fascicle sheath 1.5–2 cm ...
Some red color may be seen in the fissures of the bark. The species is self pruning; there tend not to be dead branches on the trees, and older trees may have very long lengths of branchless trunk below the canopy. [5] The leaves are needle-like, dark yellow-green, in fascicles of two, [6] 12–18 centimetres (4 + 3 ⁄ 4 –7 inches) long, and ...
Vermilion (sometimes vermillion) [1] is a color family and pigment most often used between antiquity and the 19th century from the powdered mineral cinnabar (a form of mercury sulfide). It is synonymous with red orange, which often takes a modern form, but is 11% brighter (at full brightness). [contradictory]
Abies magnifica, the red fir or silvertip fir, is a western North American fir, native to the mountains of southwest Oregon and California in the United States. It is a high-elevation tree, typically occurring at 1,400–2,700 metres (4,600–8,900 ft) elevation, though only rarely reaching tree line .
Pinus ponderosa is a large coniferous pine tree. The bark helps distinguish it from other species. Mature to overmature individuals have yellow to orange-red bark in broad to very broad plates with black crevices. [14] Younger trees have blackish-brown bark, [14] referred to as "blackjacks" by early
The bark is orange-red, thick, and deeply fissured at the base of the trunk, somewhat thinner in the upper crown. The leaves ('needles') are in pairs, very stout (2 millimetres or 1 ⁄ 16 inch broad), up to 25 cm (10 in) long, [4] and bluish-green to distinctly yellowish-green. The maritime pine features the longest and most robust needles of ...
Pinus sylvestris, the Scots pine (UK), Scotch pine (US), Baltic pine, [2] or European red pine [3] is a species of tree in the pine family Pinaceae that is native to Eurasia.It can readily be identified by its combination of fairly short, blue-green leaves and orange-red bark.
Pinus merkusii is closely related to the Tenasserim pine (P. latteri), which occurs farther north in southeast Asia from Myanmar to Vietnam; some botanists treat the two as conspecific (under the name P. merkusii, which was described first), but P. latteri differs in longer (18–27 cm or 7– 10 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) and stouter (over 1 mm thick) leaves and larger cones with thicker scales, the cones ...