White Pine, (Pinus Sylvestris)

Scots pine is evergreen, resinous, straight tree, reaching a height of 40 m. The root system is highly developed - the main root can reach up to 8 m depth, and the lateral roots are spread out in a circle, whose diameter in the looser soils reaches 6 – 8 m. The bark of mature trees in the lower part of the trunk is gray-brown to copper-red, it is cracked into irregularly shaped tiles. Up the trunk, the bark becomes yellowish-orange to reddish-orange. The branches are vertebrally arranged. The leaves are needle-shaped, gray-green, from 7 to 10 cm long, rounded on the outside, and concave on the inside, located two in a short vagina (membranous scales at the base) on a greatly shortened twig. The white pine changes its leaves every day 2 – 3 years, but the change takes a long time.