Miller, Gard. Dict. edn 8 (1768).
Synonymy: Not Applicable
Common name: Aleppo pine.
Tree to 20 m high; bark smooth and silvery-grey at first, becoming reddish-brown, fissured and scaly; winter buds c. 8 mm long, the scales fringed and often reflexed at the tips; leaves in pairs, 5-8 cm long, c. 1 mm diam., greyish-green.
Female cones 1-3 together, on thick scaly stalks, reddish, ovoid-conic, 5-11 cm long, more or less symmetrical.
Hora (1981) The Oxford encyclopedia of trees, p. 67.
S.Aust.: FR, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, KI, SE. Native to the Mediterranean region and western Asia.
Flowering time: No flowering time is available
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