Swiss Stone Pine Fact Sheet
Family: Pinaceae - Pine family
Latin name: Pinus cembra
Common name: Swiss stone pine
Pinus cembra L. PINACEAE - PINE FAMILY
Trade Names: SWISS STONE PINE, AROLLO PINE, STONE PINE
Range: Central Europe to Ukraine
- Habit and Form
- evergreen tree
- narrow dense pyramidal form when young
- more open and somewhat flat-topped with drooping branches when mature
- 25 to 35' tall by 10 to 20' wide
- medium to fine texture
- slow growth rate
Foliage
- 5 needles per fasicle
- approx. 3" in length
- blue green to light green needles
- stiff, straight, dense, needles, but soft to the touch
- stomatal lines on underside of needles
- serrated margins
- needles are twisted
- needles persist up to 5 years
Fruit
- violet brown cone
- ovoid to elongated oval, 3" long
- cones remain on tree after maturing, approx. 3 years
- cones remain closed
Bark
- new stems covered with orange-brown pubescence
- mature branches are dark
All photos are of tagged trees located at Morton
Arboretum - Lisle, Illinois
Resources:
Conn Plant Database Home Page - http://www.hort.uconn.edu/Plants/p/pincem/pincem1.html
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2009
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