Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pinus elliottii
Common name
Slash Pine
Family
Pinaceae
Where found
Urban bushland, woodland, grassland, disturbed sites and waste areas. Mainly Sydney area and north. Rarely elsewhere.
Notes
Introduced tree to 30 m high. Minute prickles at the tips of the woody scales of the female cones. Bark grey to rusty brown or reddish, broken into broad irregular plates and fissures, and partly shedding in broad, thin scales. Shoots glaucous, branchlets orange-brown. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, 17.5–30 cm long, 1.2-1.5 mm wide, glossy, bright green, margins finely toothed. Leaves in bundles of twos or threes and enclosed within a sheath at the base. Male and female cones on the same plant. Male cones purplish, 25-60 mm long, in clusters. Mature female cones initially green, brown or reddish-brown when mature, 70–200 mm long, 30–70 mm wide, made up of many woody scales, each thickened at the top. Female cones single or in pairs, symmetrical, borne on short stalks, pointing down. Seeds mottled grey or black, oval to oval, with a single papery wing 25–30 mm long.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pinus~elliottii (accessed 1 February, 2021)
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