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Image credits: an1malpulse #5. Animal campaigners are calling for a ban on the public sale of fireworks after a baby red panda was thought to have died from stress related to the noise.
A pine is any conifer tree or shrub in the genus Pinus (/ ˈ p aɪ n ə s /) [2] of the family Pinaceae. Pinus is the sole genus in the subfamily Pinoideae.. World Flora Online accepts 134 species-rank taxa (119 species and 15 nothospecies) of pines as current, with additional synonyms, [3] and Plants of the World Online 126 species-rank taxa (113 species and 13 nothospecies), [4] making it ...
Pinus, the pines, is a genus of approximately 111 extant tree and shrub species. The genus is currently split into two subgenera: subgenus Pinus (hard pines), and subgenus Strobus (soft pines).
Throughout the Appalachian Mountain range, P. pungens is a component of conifer-dominated communities along combination with other pine species. [10] The three tallest known Pinus pungens are in Paris Mountain State Park , South Carolina; they are 26.85 to 29.96 metres (88 ft 1 in to 98 ft 4 in) tall.
Image credits: thootly #5 Orangutans Self-Medicate. A Sumatran Orangutan in Indonesia has been observed healing a nasty wound on its face by making a paste from a native plant known to locals as ...
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.
Stone pine in Brissago, on Lake Maggiore, Switzerland The stone pine is a coniferous evergreen tree that can exceed 25 metres (80 feet) in height, but 12–20 m (40–65 ft) is more typical. In youth, it is a bushy globe, in mid-age an umbrella canopy on a thick trunk, and, in maturity, a broad and flat crown over 8 m (26 ft) in width. [ 2 ]
Cultivated pine forest in Vagamon, southern Western Ghats, Kerala, India Members of the family Pinaceae are trees (rarely shrubs ) growing from 2 to 100 metres (7 to 300 feet) tall, mostly evergreen (except the deciduous Larix and Pseudolarix ), resinous , monoecious , with subopposite or whorled branches, and spirally arranged, linear (needle ...