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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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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 mugo pine is used in cooking. The cones can be made into a syrup called "pinecone syrup", [15] "pine cone syrup", [16] or mugolio. Buds and young cones are harvested from the wild in the spring and left to dry in the sun over the summer and into autumn. The cones and buds gradually drip syrup, which is then boiled down to a concentrate and ...
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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
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 ]