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Pinus resinosa
Also called Norway Pine, American Red Pine, Canadian Red Pine
Red pine (Pinus resinosa) is a tall, straight conifer native to eastern North America, valued for timber and landscaping. It grows best in cool climates with full sun and well-drained soil.
Pinus resinosa, known as red pine (also Norway pine in Minnesota), is a species of conifer in the family Pinaceae. A pine, it is native to Eastern North America, with a distribution from Pennsylvania and the Great Lakes region to Manitoba and Newfoundland. It is an adaptable species, and is a valuable forestry species in its native range. One of only two American members of subsection Pinus, the species is characterised by low genetic diversity.
It occurs from Newfoundland west to Manitoba, and south to Pennsylvania, with several smaller, disjunct populations occurring in the Appalachian Mountains in Virginia and West Virginia, as well as a few small pockets in extreme northern New Jersey and northern Illinois. It can be found in a variety of habitats, predominantly in cool-temperate, hemiboreal and southern-mid boreal forests, with sparse populations found further north and south.
The wood is commercially valuable in forestry for timber and paper pulp, and the tree is also used for landscaping. The wood is light, hard, and very close grained. It is not durable in contact with soil without chemical treatment. It is used in construction for piling, masts, spars, boxes, and crates.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pinus resinosa by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
