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Pinus strobus |
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White Pine, Eastern White Pine |
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Eastern North America |
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Upright, loosely pyramidal when young,
flattening on
top and stratified later, very graceful and
picturesque. |
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50-80 feet tall with a spread of 20-40 feet |
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Plants are
monoecious. Staminate cones are
yellow and clustered, pistillate are pink. |
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Needles are borne in fascicles of 5 and 4-5 inches
long, slender, with a finely toothed margin and
white stomata lines on the inner surfaces,
bluish-green in color. |
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Cones are pendent, stalked, 6-8 inches long,
often curved, resinous, light brown in color. |
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- 'Brevifolia' - slow growing dwarf with
needles scarcely over ¼ inch long, making
a dense, globe-shaped bush.
- 'Fastigiata' - Pyramidal Eastern White
Pine - upright in habit -fastigiate to
pyramidal in habit. T
- 'Nana' - Dwarf Eastern White Pine -
dwarf, rounded to conical bush
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'Pendula'
- Weeping White Pine - pendulous branches.
- 'Umbraculifera' - Umbrella Eastern White Pine - compact-growing bush with short
needles, upright branches and a uniformly
level top.
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