Bosnian Pine
Growth habit
Tree
Perennation
Long-lived polycarpic perennial
Native distribution
Yugoslavia, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, and Italy.
Location
Source of plant
Plantasia, Iseli Nursery, Treehaven Evergreen Nursery, Claude Heit
Description
Tree, to 30m, trunk to 50cm in diameter or more, bark more gray, leaving yellowish patches afterexfoliating in irregular scales, young shoots gray-white, thick and glabrous, appearing like a snakeskin after the needles fall from the very closely spaced leaf cushions, buds similar to those of P. nigra, but darker in color and resin free; needles in 2's, very densely arranged and brushlike clustered at thebranch tips, stiff, 6-8cm long, margins finely serrate, sharpley acuminate, with stomatal lines on all sides, sheathes 10-12 mm long, cones oblong-ovate, black when young (!), 5-7.5 cm long, short stalked,dull brown, slightly glossy, scale ends of the basal scales pyramidal and with some tips, usually incurvedat the base of the cone, seeds like those of P. nigra.
USDA Hardiness Zone
5