Pine eastern white seeds

Eastern White Pine or Weymouth pine / Pinus strobus

It is a fast growing tree, with an annual growth of 30 - 40 centimeters. At the age of ten, the height of the tree is 3.5 - 5.0 meters, with a crown width of 1.5 - 2.0 meters. In adulthood, it reaches a height of up to 40-50 meters and a crown width of 8-10 meters. The shape of the crown is pyramidal, becoming ovoid in adulthood.

The needles of the Weymouth pine are long, bluish-green, thin, soft, hanging, up to 14 centimeters in length. The needles fall off every two or three years. Shoots brown-green, glabrous, thin, flexible. The ends of the shoots are directed downwards. Buds ovoid, brown, slightly resinous.

Cones are brown-brown, hanging, spindle-shaped, cylindrical-conical, curved, up to 15 centimeters in length and up to 4 centimeters in diameter. When ripe, they open wide. The apophysis is flat, thin, with an umbilicus at the top of the scale. Seeds are ovoid, brown, small, up to 7 mm long, with a long wing.

Weymouth pine as an introducer is widely used to create forest crops and in landscape gardening.

Weymouth pine is shade-tolerant, but feels good in the sun and in partial shade, frost-resistant (USDA climate zone 5), withstands frosts without icing down to -30 degrees Celsius. Not whimsical to soil fertility, likes moderately moist soils. Wind and snow resistant, gas and smoke resistant. Requires fungicide treatment against bushy fungi.