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Botanical descriptions Habitat and ecology Distribution
Diagnostic characters : | Pine with 2 needles per bundle. Fruit a cone. |
Habit : | Evergreen tree up to 30 m tall. |
Trunk & bark : | Bole straight, bark dark grey or blackish, deeply fissured, scaly. |
Branches and branchlets or twigs : | Twigs terete, glabrous. |
Exudates : | Exudate resinous. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, needle-like, in bundles of two, on short woody stumps. Stipules absent. |
Inflorescences or flowers : | Flowers arranged in a many-flowered inflorescence, unisexual, on the same tree, male in yellow catkins, female in thick woody cones. |
Fruits : | Cones up to 11 cm long, scaly, woody, scales with 4 - 5 angled pyramidal tips. |
Seeds : | Seeds many, with 1 thin wing. |