Pine scots seeds

Scots pine (Scotch pine) / Pinus sylvestris - a plant, a widespread species of the genus Pine of the Pine family (Pinaceae).

A tree 25-40 m high and with a trunk diameter of 0.5-1.2 m. The trunk is straight. The crown is highly raised, cone-shaped, and then rounded, wide, with branches horizontally arranged in whorls.

The bark in the lower part of the trunk is thick, scaly, gray-brown, with deep cracks. Scales of the bark form plates of irregular shape. In the upper part of the trunk and on the branches, the bark is thin, in the form of flakes (flakes), orange-red.

The branching is single. The shoots are green at first, then turn gray-light brown by the end of the first summer.

The buds are ovate-cone-shaped, orange-brown, covered with white resin, often with a thin, rarely with a thicker layer.

The needles are located two in a bundle, (2.5-) 4-6 (-9) cm long, 1.5-2 mm thick, gray or bluish-green, usually slightly curved, finely serrated edges, live 2- 6 (-9) years old. The upper side of the needles is convex, the lower side is grooved, dense, with clearly visible bluish-white stomatal lines. In young trees, the needles are longer (5-9 cm), in old ones they are shorter (2.5-5). Leaf sheath membranous, gray, 5-8 mm, slowly corroded with age to 3-4 mm.

Male cones 8-12 mm, yellow or pink. Female cones (2.5-) 3-6 (-7.5) cm long, cone-shaped, symmetrical or almost symmetrical, solitary or 2-3 pieces, matte from gray-light brown to gray-green when ripe; ripen in November-December, 20 months after pollination; open from February to April and soon fall off. The scales of the cones are almost rhombic, flat or slightly convex with a small navel, rarely hooked, with a pointed apex. Seeds black, 4-5 mm, with membranous wing 12-20 mm.

Scotch pine wood is widely used in joinery and carpentry, for the manufacture of veneer, plywood.

The roots, unusually flexible when fresh, become strong and resilient when dried; various wicker utensils are made from them, for example, wicker vessels.

Pine is a source of many valuable substances and mixtures widely used by man. Resin, mined by tapping since ancient times, is a valuable raw material for the chemical industry. Two main products are obtained from it: rosin and turpentine. These products can be further processed to produce solvents, fragrances, adhesives, chandeliers and other products.

From needles, young shoots and cones, an essential oil is obtained - Pine oil, or Essential oil of pine. Pine oil can be used in service and residential premises, hospital wards, kindergartens, schools, saunas for air aromatization.