Pinia

Stone pine is an evergreen tree, with a short trunk, dividing low into several powerful branches. Reach 25-35 meters high. His typical one is from 12 to 20 m. In its youth, its crown is a dense globe, as the tree ages, it takes on an umbrella-like shape, and at a later stage it becomes wide and flat with a diameter of over 8 meters. Its bark is badly cracked. She is fat, red-brown and deeply cut into broad vertical plates.

The leaves are needle-shaped, hard and sharp. The flexible ones, medium green colored needles are collected by two in bundles and are long 10-20 cm. Young trees up to 5-10 years old bear young leaves, which are very different, single (not paired), long 2-4 centimeters, colored gray-green; the adult leaves appear mixed with the young leaves of the fourth or fifth year, replacing them completely around the tenth year.

pine tree.