General Plant Information (Edit)
| Plant Habit: |
Tree
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| Life cycle: |
Perennial
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| Sun Requirements: |
Full Sun
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| Water Preferences: |
Mesic
Dry Mesic
Dry
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| Soil pH Preferences: |
Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
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| Minimum cold hardiness: |
Zone 5a -28.9 °C (-20 °F) to -26.1 °C (-15 °F)
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| Plant Height: |
120 to 200 feet or higher |
| Leaves: |
Evergreen
Needled
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| Fruit: |
Showy
Other: Thick scaled, cylindrical cones, 12 to 20 inches or more in length.
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| Underground structures: |
Taproot
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| Resistances: |
Fire Resistant
Drought tolerant
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| Propagation: Seeds: |
Self fertile
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| Pollinators: |
Wind
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| Miscellaneous: |
Tolerates poor soil
Monoecious
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| Conservation status: |
Least Concern (LC)
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- Sugar Pine
- California Sugar Pine
- Sugar Cone Pine
- Pino de Azucar
- Simt'a:gim
- Ussip
Posted by
ILPARW (southeast Pennsylvania - Zone 6b) on Apr 2, 2019 7:45 PM concerning plant:
Sugar Pine is a soft pine with soft, thin needles in bundles of 5 about 3 to 5 inches long and sort of twisted, and having fine white lines on all surfaces. The stalked, columnar cones without prickles are very large of 10 to 26 inches long, usually about 16 inches long; the longest cones of any American conifer. The young bark is smooth and gray and becomes gray-brown to purple-brown and is broken into scaly ridges. It grows to 175 to 200 feet high with a trunk of 3 to 5 feet in diameter. It is the tallest American pine species. It gets its common name from having a sugary substance in its sap. It is native to California and Oregon.
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