Family: Pinaceae
Pinus ponderosa
Citation:
Douglas in Loudon, Arboret. frut. Brit. 4:2243 (1838).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Ponderosa pine.
Description:
Tree to 20 m or more high; bark yellowish or a dark reddish brown, breaking up into large irregular scaly plates; winter buds c. 18 mm long, resinous, the scales closely appressed; leaves in threes, 12-25 cm long, 1.5-2.5 mm diam., dark-green.
Female cones solitary or in clusters, sessile or subsessile, a light reddish brown, ovoid, 7.5-20 cm long, symmetrical.
Published illustration:
Hora (1981) The Oxford encyclopedia of trees, p. 67.
Distribution:
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S.Aust.: MU, SL. Native to North America.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: No flowering time is available |
SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
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