Pinus cembroides |
Pinus resinosa |
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Mexican pinyon, pino piñonero, piñón |
Norway pine, pin rouge, red pine |
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Habit | Shrubs or trees to 15m; trunk to 0.3m diam., strongly tapering, much branched; crown rounded. | Trees to 37m; trunk to 1.5m diam., straight; crown narrowly rounded. |
Bark | red-brown to dark brown, shallowly and irregularly furrowed, ridges broad, scaly. |
light red-brown, furrowed and cross-checked into irregularly rectangular, scaly plates. |
Branches | spreading-ascending; twigs red-brown, sometimes finely papillate, aging gray to gray-brown. |
spreading-ascending; twigs moderately slender (to 1cm thick), orange- to red-brown, aging darker brown, rough. |
Buds | ovoid to short cylindric, pale red-brown, 0.5–1.2cm, slightly resinous. |
ovoid-acuminate, red-brown, to ca. 2cm, resinous; scale margins fringed. |
Leaves | (2–)3(–4) per fascicle, spreading to upcurved, persisting 3–4 years, 2–6cm × 0.6–0.9(–1)mm, connivent, 2–3-sided, blue- to gray-green, abaxial surface not conspicuously whitened with stomatal bands or if stomatal bands present, these less conspicuous than on adaxial surfaces, often with 2 subepidermal resin bands evident, adaxial surfaces conspicuously whitened with stomatal lines, margins entire to finely serrulate, apex narrowly conic or subulate; sheath 0.5–0.7cm, scales soon recurved, forming rosette, shed early. |
2 per fascicle, straight or slightly twisted, brittle, breaking cleanly when bent, deep yellow-green, all surfaces with narrow stomatal bands, margins serrulate, apex short-conic, acute; sheath 1–2.5cm, base persistent. |
Pollen cones | ellipsoid, to 10mm, yellow. |
ellipsoid, ca. 15mm, dark purple. |
Seed(s) | cones maturing in 2 years, shedding seeds and falling soon thereafter, spreading, symmetric, ovoid before opening, broadly depressed-ovoid to nearly globose when open, 1–3.5cm, pale yellow- to pale red-brown, resinous, nearly sessile or short-stalked; apophyses thickened, slightly domed, angulate, transversely keeled; umbo subcentral, slightly raised to depressed, truncate or umbilicate. |
cones maturing and opening in 2 years, spreading, symmetric, ovoid before opening, broadly ovoid to nearly globose when open, 3.5–6cm, light red-brown, nearly sessile; apophyses slightly thickened, slightly raised, transversely low-keeled; umbo central, centrally depressed, unarmed. |
2n | =24. |
=24. |
Pinus cembroides |
Pinus resinosa |
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Habitat | Pinyon-juniper woodland, foothills, mesas, tablelands | Sandy soils, eastern boreal forests |
Elevation | 700–2300m (2300–7500ft) | 200–800(–1300)m (700–2600(–4300)ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; NM; TX; Mexico
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CT; IL; MA; ME; MI; MN; NH; NJ; NY; PA; VT; WI; WV; MB; NB; NF; NS; ON; PE; QC
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Discussion | Pinus cembroides is the common pinyon of Mexican commerce. Populations of the Edwards Plateau, Texas, are disjunct about 150km east and north of the main area of distribution of the species, and they have been described as a distinct variety, P. cembroides var. remota Little, on the basis of thin seed shell and a higher frequency of 2-leaved fascicles in contrast to the thicker seed shell and prevalently 3-leaved fascicles in Mexican pinyon populations to the west and south. The strong overlap in nearly all character states between the populations of the Edwards Plateau and other populations makes var. remota difficult to maintain. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Pinus resinosa was once the most important timber pine in the Great Lakes region. Norway pine (Pinus resinosa) is the state tree of Minnesota. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 2. | FNA vol. 2. |
Parent taxa | Pinaceae > Pinus | Pinaceae > Pinus |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | P. cembroides var. bicolor, P. cembroides var. remota, P. discolor, P. remota | |
Name authority | Zuccarini: Abh. Math.-Phys. Cl. Königl. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. 1: 392. (1832) | Aiton: Hort. Kew. 3: 367. (1789) |
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