Usually two needles per fascicle. Needles are coarse, thick, curved, blue-green or yellow-green, stiff, and one to two inches long.
Flower
Monoecious; males red, cylindrical, in clusters near ends of branches; females purplish at branch tips.
Fruit
Cones are ovoid, 2 inches long, short-stalked, brown in color, with very thick cone scales. Each scale contains two very large edible “pine nuts”.
Maturing in September and October.
Twig
Stout and orange-brown, somewhat scraggly.
Bark
Scaly or with small plates, red-brown to gray.
Form
A small tree with an irregularly rounded crown.
Copyright 2019 Virginia Tech Dept. of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation; Photos and text by: John Seiler, Edward Jensen, Alex Niemiera, and John Peterson; Silvics reprinted from Ag Handbook 654; range map source information
