Eastern White Pine (Trees of Manitoba)

Eastern White Pine

Pinus strobus

Traditional Indigenous Names ⁴

Cree: Místi Wápi Minahik
Ojibwe: Zhingwaak
Dakota: Wazichan
Ojibwe-Cree: Minahik

Summary from Wikipedia ⁵

Pinus strobus, commonly denominated the eastern white pine, northern white pine, white pine, Weymouth pine (British), and soft pine is a large pine native to eastern North America. It occurs from Newfoundland, Canada west through the Great Lakes region to southeastern Manitoba and Minnesota, United States, and south along the Appalachian Mountains and upper Piedmont to northernmost Georgia and perhaps very rarely in some of the higher elevations in

Easy identifiers ⁴

Eastern White Pine needles are joined in clusters of five which is unlike other pine trees in the east. Eastern White Pine branches are notably curved upwards or horizontal.

Form ⁴

A medium-sized evergreen tree with a broadly cylindrical-to-irregular crown when open-grown; narrower in closed stands.

Bark ⁴

Thin, smooth, greyish-green when young, becoming rough, dark grey, deeply furrowed with scaly ridges.

Twigs ⁴

Opposite or whorled, slender, greenish-grey, roughened by leaf bases at first but becoming smooth and brown. Buds 15 millimetres (1/4 - 1/2 inch) long with light brown pointed scales.

Leaves ⁴

Needle-like, soft, 5 - 15 centimetres (2 1/2 - 5 inches) long, finely-toothed, in clusters of five with a deciduous brown sheath at base.

Flowers ⁴

May, in clusters near tip of twig, yellowish or pinkish, oval.

Fruit ⁴

Cone, almost cylindrical and sometimes curved, 8 - 20 centimetres long (3 - 8 inches) on curved stems; cone scales thin, brown and not barbed.

Occurrence ⁴

Extreme southeastern Manitoba in dry habitats; rare.

Fun facts ⁴

Eastern White Pine trees grows very fast, resulting in tall and long lived trees. In the 18th and 19th centuries these massive trees were used for building settlements and the masts of British ships. Now, Eastern White Pine trees are still used for lumber and furniture.

Sources and Credits

(c) Manitoba Forestry, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Manitoba Forestry
(c) Kyle Jones, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Kyle Jones
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(c) Manitoba Forestry, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Adapted by Manitoba Forestry from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinus_strobus

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