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Pinus
Also called Deal, Pines, Pine Trees
Pines (Pinus) are a genus of mostly large evergreen conifers with needles in bundles of 2 to 5 and seeds in woody cones. Garden and landscape pines are usually hardy, full-sun trees that need open space, and many species are too large for houses.
Pines (genus Pinus () are a genus of conifers in the family Pinaceae. Pinus is the sole genus in the subfamily Pinoideae. The species are trees or shrubs with their leaves in bunches, usually of 2 to 5 needles. The seeds are carried on woody cones, with two seeds to each cone scale.
Pines are widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere; they occupy large areas of taiga (boreal forest), but are found in many habitats, including the Mediterranean Basin, and dry tropical forests in southeast Asia and Central America. Some are fire-resistant or fire-dependent.
Pines are native to the Northern Hemisphere, with the most species in North America, some in Asia, and a few in Europe. Only two species, Pinus sylvestris and Pinus sibirica, occur in more than one of those regions (Asia and Europe). They occupy large areas of boreal forest (taiga) in latitudes between 50° and 60° N; about a third of this biome is in North America and Scandinavia, the rest in Siberia. The northernmost species is Scots pine, reaching just north of 70° N in Stabbursdalen National Park in Norway. One species, Pinus merkusii, crosses the equator in Sumatra to 2°S. In North America, various species occur in regions at latitudes from as far north as 66° N to as far south as 12°N.
Rocky Mountains Bristlecone Pine · Arizona Pine · Chinese White Pine · Mexican White Pine · Jack pine · Turkish Pine · Lacebark Pine · Canary Islands Pine · Caribbean pine · Swiss Pine · Mexican Pinyon · Sand Pine
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pine by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
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