familyPinaceae
genusPinus

Pinus resinosa

Aiton

Hort. Kew. 3: 367. 1789.

Common names: Red pine Norway pine pin rouge
IllustratedEndemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 2.

Trees to 37m; trunk to 1.5m diam., straight; crown narrowly rounded. Bark light-redbrown, furrowed and cross-checked into irregularly rectangular, scaly plates. Branches spreading-ascending; twigs moderately slender (to 1cm thick), orange to redbrown, aging darker brown, rough. Buds ovoid-acuminate, redbrown, to ca. 2cm, resinous; scale margins fringed. Leaves 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, ca. 15mm, dark purple. Seed-cones maturing and opening in 2 years, spreading, symmetric, ovoid before opening, broadly ovoid to nearly globose when open, 3.5–6cm, light-redbrown, nearly sessile; apophyses slightly thickened, slightly raised, transversely low-keeled; umbo central, centrally depressed, unarmed. Seeds ovoid; body 3–5mm, brown; wing to 20mm. 2n =24.


Habitat: Sandy soils, eastern boreal forests
Elevation: 200–800(–1300)m

Distribution

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Man., N.B., Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.), N.S., Ont., P.E.I., Que., Conn., Ill., Maine, Mass., Mich., Minn., N.H., N.J., N.Y., Pa., Vt., W.Va., Wis.

Discussion

Pinus resinosa was once the most important timber pine in the Great Lakes region.

Norway pine (Pinus resinosa) is the state tree of Minnesota.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

"relatively thin" is not a number.

... more about "Pinus resinosa"
resinous +
acute +  and short-conic +
low-keeled +
Robert Kral +
light-redbrown +
persistent +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
spreading-ascending +
resinous +
conspicuous +
ovoid-acuminate +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
Red pine +, Norway pine +  and pin rouge +
light-redbrown +
3.5 cm35 mm <br />0.035 m <br /> (6 cm60 mm <br />0.06 m <br />) +
broadly ovoid +  and nearly globose +
rounded +
Man. +, N.B. +, Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.) +, N.S. +, Ont. +, P.E.I. +, Que. +, Conn. +, Ill. +, Maine +, Mass. +, Mich. +, Minn. +, N.H. +, N.J. +, N.Y. +, Pa. +, Vt. +, W.Va. +  and Wis. +
200–800(–1300)m +
sheathed +  and sessile +
rounded +, 2-3-angled +  and terete +
Sandy soils, eastern boreal forests +
arranged +  and fascicles +
straight +
scale-like +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
rectangular +
not winged +  and 2-winged +
15 cm150 mm <br />0.15 m <br /> (?) +
fibrous;woody +
arranged +  and overlapping +
persistent +
flattened +
pliable +  and woody +
grouped +  and solitary +
long-persistent +
wingless +, winged +, stalked +  and sessile +
persistent +
pendent;more or less erect +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br />) +
reduced;well-defined short +
Illustrated +  and Endemic +
yellow-green +
extended +
Apinus +, Strobus +  and Caryopitys +
Pinus resinosa +
species +
decurrent +  and elongate +
straight +
darker brown +, orange +  and redbrown +
slender +
depressed +
reduced +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (?) +  and 2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (?) +