Pinus flexilis

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Read about Pinus flexilis in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Pinus flexilis, James. Limber Pine. Fig. 2962. Tree, to 50, occasionally to 80 ft., with stout horizontal branches forming a narrow open pyramid, in old age with low, broad, round-topped head: winter buds broadly ovate, slender-pointed: lvs. rigid, acute, dark green, 1 1/3 - 3 in. long: cones short-stalked, ovate to cylindric-ovate, light brown, 3-6, rarely 10 in. long; scales rounded at the apex, tipped with an obtuse, dark umbo, the lower ones elongated and reflexed; seeds dark brown, mottled with black, 1/3 -1/2 in. long, with narrow wing. Alberta to Calif, and New Mex. S.S. 11:546,547. G.F. 10:165. B.M. 8467. M.D. 1904:49. F.E. 29:47.—Hardy pine of slow growth; seems to be best adapted for ornamental planting on rocky slopes. Var. reflexa, Engelm. (P. reflexa, Engelm. P. strobiformis, Sudw., not Engelm.). Tree, to 100 ft.: lvs. slender, to 4 in. long, entire or remotely serrulate: cones 5-9 in. long, on longer stalks, with often thin reflexed scales. Ariz. S.S. 11:544, 545. Var. albo-variegata, Schwerin. Has many of lvs. white.

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