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Pinus lambertiana (commonly known as the sugar pine or sugar cone pine) is the tallest and most massive pine tree and has the longest cones of any conifer.It is native to coastal and inland mountain areas along the Pacific coast of North America, as far north as Oregon and as far south as Baja California in Mexico.
Pinus lambertiana (sugar pine) The largest and tallest pine, and one of the oldest, sometimes living 500 years or more. [84] Mature trees often have long cones weighing down the tips of the upper branches. Uses: timber; pulpwood, veneers [85] [84] —
Coulter pine (Pinus coulteri), or big-cone pine, is a conifer in the genus Pinus of the family Pinaceae.Coulter pine is an evergreen conifer that lives up to 100 years. [2] It is a native of the coastal mountains of Southern California in the United States and northern Baja California in Mexico, occurring in mediterranean climates, where winter rains are infrequent and summers are dry with ...
Conifer North-central Taiwan: East Asia [40] Sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana) 83.45 273.8 Conifer near Yosemite National Park, California, United States. Western North America [41] Abies chensiensis var. salouenensis: 83.4 274 Conifer Zayü County, Tibet Autonomous Region, China East Asia [42] Western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla) 83.34 273.4 Conifer
Mixed conifer forest is a vegetation type dominated by a mixture of broadleaf trees and conifers. [1] ... Sugar Pine (Pinus lambertiana), Incense Cedar (Calocedrus ...
Conifer species in the Klamath Mountains include coast Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii ssp. menziesii), Port Orford cedar, ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa), sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana), mountain hemlock (Tsuga mertensiana), western hemlock, white fir (Abies concolor var. lowiana), red fir (A. magnifica var. shastensis), Brewer spruce ...
A mature female big-cone pine (Pinus coulteri) cone, the heaviest pine cone A young female cone on a Norway spruce (Picea abies) Immature male cones of Swiss pine (Pinus cembra) A conifer cone, or in formal botanical usage a strobilus, pl.: strobili, is a seed-bearing organ on gymnosperm plants, especially in conifers and cycads.
Birds of the crow family, Corvidae, are the primary distributor of the conifer seeds. These birds are known to cache 32,000 pine seeds and transport the seeds as far as 12–22 km (7.5–13.7 mi) from the source.