Station 12
Botanical Name: Pinus strobus
Common Name: White Piney
Major Evergreen Tree
Native Origin: Eastern North America
Height: 50-80 May Reach 150
Spread: 20-40
Form: Pyramidal
Flowers: Inconspicuous
Fruit: 6-8 Cones
Bark: Dark Gray-Brown Scaly Ridges
Comments: The largest of native conifer trees in the region. White Pine is a common landscape tree but needs a sunny location which is free of pollution to be successful. White Pines require good fertile soil and are very susceptible to road salt damage. This pine often becomes established in abandoned fields, giving it the name old field pine. The wood of White Pines probably has more uses than that of any other species. There are two enemies that threaten white pine, the white pine weevil and the white pine blister rust caused by a fungus. The weevil deforms the tree and the blister rust eventually kills the tree.