| Description | A large conifer harvested for lumber. |
|---|---|
| Pronunciation | (PIE-nus)(rez-in-OH-sa) |
| Plant Type | All Plants, Trees Coniferous |
| Hardiness Zone | 2-5 |
| Sunlight | full |
| Moisture | average |
| Soil & Site | average, found growing in poor sandy soils |
| Temperature | tolerates -40 degrees F |
| Flowers | male and female flowers bore separately as small cones on the same plant, |
| Fruit | cones 2 inches long by 1-2 inches broad |
| Leaves | needles: green, lustrous, two in a bundle, soft, snapped when bent, 5-6 inches long |
| Stems | bark: narrow ridges, gray flacking to red-brown |
| Dimensions | 50-80 feet tall |
| Propagation | seeds |
| Misc Facts | Red pine comes from the reddish color of the bark, hard pine from when it was compared to White Pine (often grows and harvested with White Pine) and Norway from a mistaken identity by early explores with the Norway Spruce (this is one of many theories on why this name occurred. |
| Author's Notes | I don't know how much this conifer is used in the landscape. I checked three major nurseries in the SE Wisconsin region and none ofter this plant for sale. |
| Notes & Reference | #1-Manual of Woody Landscape Plants (Michael Dirr),#39-The Natural History of Trees (Donald Cultrose Pattie) #66-Trees of Eastern and North central USA and Canada (Harlow), #93-North American Landscape Trees (Arthur Lee Jacobson), #94-Trees of Eastern and Central United States and Canada |
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