Plants | Blue Pine Trees

Description

Botanical Name: Pinus pinea
Common Name(s): Italian Stone Pine, Parasol Pine, Roman Pine, Stone Pine, Umbrella Pine
Description: The stone pine is a coniferous evergreen tree that can exceed 25 metres (80 feet) in height, but 12–20 m (40–65 ft) is more typical. In youth, it is a bushy globe, in mid-age an umbrella canopy on a thick trunk, and, in maturity, a broad and flat crown over 8 m (26 ft) in width.The bark is thick, red-brown and deeply fissured into broad vertical plates.