Pine cultivation

How is Scots pine like?

Scots pine (pinus sylvestris) is a perennial tree of the pine family –Pinnaceae– up to 40 m, although it usually reaches 25. Erect stems, with grizzly brown fissures. Reddish orange or brown bark at the lower part and red in the superior part and in the branches. The ramification is complete in the youngest samples, presenting a very defined pyramidal form. As it grows, it loses the inferior branches, developing a very high nude trunk bearing some few branches in the superior part that provide it a more ungraceful aspect and a flatter crown.

Its leaves are bluish green, from 3 to 8 centimeters long, pungent and arranged in pairs. Young leaves appear doubly long, in groups of 3 or 4. Female cones pointed, brown or gray, almost conical, till 6 cm long, solitary or in groups of three, placed on short peduncles. Winged seeds till 4 mm long, greenish black. The pollination is carried out in spring. The cones almost take two years to become mature. May – June

Scots pine watering

It needs a great amount of water, because it is adapted to the mountains, between the 200 and 2000 meters, with precipitations around 700 mm. It grows very fast with the suitable quantity of water.

Scots pine gardening use

For medium, subalpine or alpine gardens. It is a suitable tree to get timber.

Scots pine emplacement and growing conditions

Shade or demishade.

It tolerates low temperatures in winter, although it doesn’t tolerate high temperatures in summer.

It resists the wind and the the freezing temperature very well, the same as the snow for which its silhouette is adapted.

Scots pine reproduction

Reproduce it from seeds.

Scots pine required soil

Any type of soil, with a good drainage.

Pinus aristata ——————Bristle cone pine

Pinus armandii —————– Armand pine

Pinus ayacahuite ——– Mexican white pine

Pinus banksiana ——————— ……………..

Pinus bungeana————— Lace bark pine

Pinus californiarum———— Californian pine

Pinus cembra——————— Arolla pine

Pinus cembroides ———- Mexican nut pine

Pinus contorta —————– Beach pine

Pinus densiflora————— Japanese red pine

Pinus discolor—————–…………………

Pinus echinata ———-……………………….

Pinus edulis ————Rocky mountain pinon

Pinus elliottii—————- Slash pine

Pinus engelmananii—————– Apache pine

Pinus flexilis——————-……………..

Pinus gerardiana—————–……………

Pinus halepensis—————— Aleppo pine

Pinus henryi —————–……………..

Pinus jeffreyi—————– Jeffrey pine

Pinus Kesiya——————— ……………….

Pinus koraiensis—————– Korean pine

Pinus lambertiana ——————— ………….

Pinus massoniana —————–……………

Pinus monophylla————- Single- leaf pine

Pinus monticola———- Western white pine

Pinus muricata—————– Bishop pine.

Pinus mugo——————- Mountain pine

Pinus nigra———————-European black pine, Australian black pine.

Pinus oaxacana —————–……………..

Pinus palustris—————– Long-leaf pine

Pinus parviflora———Japanese white pine

Pinus patula——— Mexican weeping pine.

Pinus pinaster ——-Maritime pine, cluster pine

Pinus pinea —————Roman pine, umbrella pine, stone pine.

Pinus ponderosa—————– Ponderosa pine, Western yellow pine

Pinus pseudostrobus-Smooth-bark Mexican pine

Pinus pungens——————-……………..

Pinus radiata—————– Monterey pine, Himalayan pine, radiata pine.

Pinus remota——————— ……………..

Pinus rigida —————–……………..

Pinus roxburghii—————– Chir pine, Himalayan long-leaf pine

Pinus serotina——————— …………

Pinus strobus—————– Eastern white pine, Weymouth pine

Pinus tabuliformis —————–……………

Pinus taeda —————–…………….

Pinus thunbergii ———–Japanese black pine

Pinus torreyana——————-…………..

Pinus virginiana—————–……………

Pinus wallichiana——— Buthan pine, blue pine