Western White Pine

Growth habit

Tree

Perennation

Long-lived polycarpic perennial

Native distribution

British Columbia to CA

Location

Beech Collection, Comstock Knoll and Rhododendron Collection, Hillside Garden, Pinetum

Source of plant

Arborvillage Farm Nursery, Treehaven Evergreen Nursery, Layne Ziegenfuss, Princeton Nurseries, Forestfarm Nursery, Weston Nurseries

Description

A medium-sized to large tree of narrowly conical habit, with minutely pubescent young shoots; winter buds cylindrical-ovoid. Leaves in 5's, 8cm to 10cm long, dark blue-green with white inner surface. Cones solitary or in clusters, ovoid-cylindrical, stalked, 10cm to 25cm long, usually clustered at the ends of branches, pendulous after the first year.

USDA Hardiness Zone

6

Special characteristics

foliage characteristics, winter interest