PINUS SYLVESTRIS
Scots pine (max. 35 m)
A well-known coniferous tree with a small, flattened and umbel-shaped crown. Young trees are cone-shaped with branches in wreaths, while in older trees the lower half of the trunk is bare with striking reddish, cleft bark; the upper half is scaled paper-like. The paired, grey or bluish green needles are 25 to 80 mm long, twisted, finely toothed and with a long, greyish sheath around the base of each pair. Male catkins yellow or red. Female cones short stemed in clusters of 1 to 3, each 2 to 8 cm long, egg - to cone-shaped. In Europe a general forest forming tree on barren, light or higher soils.