Pinus lambertiana
Pinus pungens
sugar pine
hickory pine, mountain pine, prickley pine, table mountain pine
cinnamon- to gray-brown, deeply furrowed, plates long, scaly.
red- to gray-brown, irregularly checked into scaly plates.
spreading, distal branches ascending;
twigs gray-green to red-tan, aging gray, mostly puberulent.
horizontally spreading;
twigs slender, orange- to yellow-brown, aging darker brown, rough.
cylindro-ovoid, red-brown, to 0.8cm, resinous.
ovoid to cylindric, red-brown, 0.6–0.9cm, resinous.
5 per fascicle, spreading to ascending, persisting 2–4 years, 5–10cm × (0.9–)1–1.5(–2)mm, straight, slightly twisted, pliant, blue-green, abaxial surface with only a few lines evident, adaxial surfaces with evident white stomatal lines, margins finely serrulate, apex acuminate;
sheath (1–)1.5–2cm, shed early.
2(–3) per fascicle, spreading or ascending, persisting 3 years, 3–6(–8)cm × 1–1.5mm, twisted, deep yellow-green, all surfaces with fine stomatal lines, margins harshly serrulate, apex acute to short-acuminate;
sheath 0.5–1cm, base persistent.
ellipsoid-cylindric, to 15mm, yellow.
ellipsoid, ca. 15mm, yellow.
cones maturing in 2 years, shedding seeds and falling soon thereafter, often clustered, pendent, symmetric, cylindric before opening, lance-cylindric to ellipsoid-cylindric when open, 25–50cm, yellow-brown, stalks 6–15cm;
apophyses somewhat thickened;
umbo terminal, depressed, resinous, slightly excurved.
cones maturing in 2 years, variably serotinous, mostly whorled, downcurved, asymmetric, ovoid before opening, broadly ovoid when open, (4–)6–10cm, gray- to pale red-brown, nearly sessile or on stalks to 1cm;
apophyses thickened, diamond-shaped, strongly keeled, elongate, mammillate at cone base abaxially;
umbo central, a stout, curved, sharp claw.
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Pinus lambertiana
Pinus pungens
The largest species of the genus, Pinus lambertiana also has the longest seed cone in the genus. It is an important timber tree with harvest far exceeding regrowth. It is easily distinguished from P. monticola and P. strobus by its larger cones and thicker cone scales with larger seeds; it is somewhat less reliably distinguished by its leaves, which are slightly wider and more tapering-tipped and have some stomatal lines evident on the abaxial surfaces (the lines not evident in P. monticola and P. strobus). A "sugary" resin high in cyclitols exudes from the sweet-scented fresh-cut wood.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Pinus pungens is a scrub pine and is too small and knotty to be much utilized except for pulpwood and firewood. Its common name refers to a general type of landform, not to a specific, named mountain.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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