Pinus pungens |
Pinus edulis |
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hickory pine, mountain pine, prickley pine, table mountain pine |
Colorado pinyon, pinyon, piñon pine, piñón, two needle pinyon pine, two-needle pinyon |
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Habit | Trees to 12m; trunk to 0.6m diam., straight to crooked, erect to leaning, poorly self-pruning; crown irregularly rounded or flattened. | Shrubs or trees to 21m; trunk to 0.6m diam., strongly tapering, erect; crown conic, rounded, dense. |
Bark | red- to gray-brown, irregularly checked into scaly plates. |
red-brown, shallowly and irregularly furrowed, ridges scaly, rounded. |
Branches | horizontally spreading; twigs slender, orange- to yellow-brown, aging darker brown, rough. |
persistent to near trunk base; twigs pale red-brown to tan, rarely glaucous, aging gray-brown to gray, glabrous to papillose-puberulent. |
Buds | ovoid to cylindric, red-brown, 0.6–0.9cm, resinous. |
ovoid to ellipsoid, red-brown, 0.5–1cm, resinous. |
Leaves | 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. |
(1–)2(–3) per fascicle, upcurved, persisting 4–6 years, 2–4cm × (0.9–)1–1.5mm, connivent, 2-sided (1-leaved fascicles with leaves 2-grooved, 3-leaved fascicles with leaves 3-sided), blue-green, all surfaces marked with pale stomatal bands, particularly the adaxial, margins entire or finely serrulate, apex narrowly acute to subulate; sheath 0.5–0.7cm, scales soon recurved, forming rosette, shed early. |
Pollen cones | ellipsoid, ca. 15mm, yellow. |
ellipsoid, ca. 7mm, yellowish to red-brown. |
Seed(s) | 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. |
cones maturing in 2 years, shedding seeds and falling soon thereafter, spreading, symmetric, ovoid before opening, depressed-ovoid to nearly globose when open, ca. (3.5–)4(–5)cm, pale yellow- to pale red-brown, resinous, nearly sessile to short-stalked; apophyses thickened, raised, angulate; umbo subcentral, slightly raised or depressed, truncate or umbilicate. |
2n | =24. |
=24. |
Pinus pungens |
Pinus edulis |
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Habitat | Dry, mostly sandy or shaly uplands, Appalachians and associated Piedmont | Dry mountain slopes, mesas, plateaus, and pinyon-juniper woodland |
Elevation | 500–1350m (1600–4400ft) | 1500–2100(–2700)m (4900–6900(–8900)ft) |
Distribution |
DE; GA; MD; NC; NJ; PA; SC; TN; VA; WV
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AZ; CA; CO; NM; OK; TX; UT; WY; Mexico in Chihuahua
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Discussion | 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.) |
Pinus edulis var. fallax Little (P. californiarum subsp. fallax (Little) D.K.Bailey) appears to combine features of P. edulis and P. monophylla. More study is needed. Seeds of Pinus edulis, the commonest southwestern United States pinyon, are much eaten and traded by Native Americans. Pinyon (Pinus edulis) is the state tree of New Mexico. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 2. | FNA vol. 2. |
Parent taxa | Pinaceae > Pinus | Pinaceae > Pinus |
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Synonyms | Caryopitys edulis, P. cembroides var. edulis | |
Name authority | Lambert: Ann. Bot. (London) 2: 198. (1805) | Engelmann: in Wislizenus, Mem. Tour N. Mexico 88. (1848) |
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