Scots Pine - Pinus sylvestris
Native over much of Europe and northern and western Asia, the Scots pine is very widely planted for its valuable timber. It also makes an attractive and hardy ornamental tree, thriving in light acid soils. Grows to 35-40 metres
Crown: Pyramid shaped or conical when young, becoming flat-topped or rounded with age, with the branches sparseley arranged high up on the trunk
Bark: At the base of the trunk, reddish or grey-brown and cracked. On the upper trunk and branches, orangeey red to pink and scaly
Shoots: Hairless and pale green, becoming brown
Buds: Cylindrical, dark brown or red
Leaves: Blue-grey or blue-green needles, often twisted, growing in pairs. 3-7 cm long
Male cones: Small, yellow and rounded, clustered near the tips of the shoots in early summer
Female cones: Pink and globular when fertilised, becoming green and turning down on the stem during the next year. Mature third year cones are 3-8 cm long, grey-brown, oval and pointed. They produce winged seeds
Uses: Yields a good multi-purpose resinous timber with reddish heartwood and pale-brown sapwood. One of the best softwoods for general construction, telegraph poles, railway sleepers, fencing, pit props, paper pulp, chipboard etc. Other products are pitch and tar, oil of turpentine and rosin (from the resin) and a reddish-yellow dye (from the cones)
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The seeds in the cones are the main food of Crossbills (a large finch), whilst needles are eaten by caterpillars of the Pine Looper and Pine Beauty moths Scots pine blogs
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- I found this huge Scots pine, Pinus sylvestris, in a bog within walking distance form my home in Bavaria, Germany in 1992. It was about 3 meters (ten feet) high and wide. I cut it back right in the bog and left it alone for three years. ...
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The oldest Scots pine known in Scotland is in Glen Loyne in Inverness-shire and was estimated to be about 550 years old in the late 1990s by scientists from the Forestry Commission's Forest Research agency. It was one of a group of ancient pines whose average age was put at about 440 years. That tree began its life when beavers and wolves still flourished in Scotland, and it was already 50 years old when Columbus sailed to the Americas in 1492. Scots pine gifts on Amazon
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Pinus sylvestris: Scots Pine Seeds
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If we could travel back around 6,000 years in time, we would see that pine woodland spread across a huge area - some 1,500,000 hectares of the Highlands of Scotland. The Caledonian Forest was a fantastic mosaic of pine and other woodland, glade and bog. Around 4,500 years ago pine began to decline. It is thought that this was partly due to a shift towards a wetter, colder climate, but the arrival of early farmers soon afterwards certainly had a devastating effect on the forest. Scots pine vids
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Demaw wrote...
Thanks for the info on this tree. As with all trees, they are very important to our environment. 5* lens.
Posted June 11, 2009
forestireland wrote...
Love your lens. I work with scots pine every day. Forest Ireland
Posted May 11, 2009
Scots pine links
- Species profile: Scots pine
- Pinus sylvestris. As the largest and longest-lived tree in the Caledonian Forest, the Scots pine is a keystone species in the ecosystem, forming the 'backbone' on which many other species depend.
- Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris)
- British trees
- Forestry Commission - Scots Pine Pinus sylvestris
- Scots Pine Pinus sylvestris
- Tim Knowles
- Tree Drawings
- Transcotland - Loch Morar
- A Scots pine tree (Pinus sylvestris) on the shore of Loch Morar in late afternoon. The Scot's pine is the native coniferous tree in Scotland and with the siver birch (Betula pendula) once covered most of the Highlands before the forests were cleared. In many areas today, overgrazing by sheep and
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