Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pinus pinea
Common name
Umbrella Pine, Stone Pine, Roman Pine, Italian Stone Pine
Family
Pinaceae
Where found
Grown as an ornamental. Naturalised. Tablelands and Western Slopes south of Crookwell. Kosciuszko National Park.
Notes
Introduced tree to 20 m tall. Bark red-grey, deeply fissured into broad vertical plates. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, 10–15 cm long, glossy, dark green, margins finely toothed. Leaves in bundles of 2 and enclosed within a sheath at the base. Male cones in clusters. Mature female cones glossy brown, 100–150 mm long, single, stalkless, drooping, oval. Mature female cones made up of many woody scales, each thickened at the top, tips rounded with a small point on the back. Seeds pale brown with a powdery black coating that rubs off easily, up to 20 mm long, with a rudimentary wing (less than 1 mm long). Seeds edible.
Readily recognised by the flat-topped, mushroom-shaped crown, and the trunk which diverges near the base.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pinus~pinea (accessed 1 February, 2021)
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