Twig with needles in clusters of 3; Wendell State Forest, MA, USA; 11/2005 © Sonja Germer
Habit; Falmouth, MA, USA; 7/2003 © Christopher Neill
Identifier: 236 Date of entry: 28.12.2005 Last update: 10.01.2020
English: Pitch Pine
Mandarin: 刚松 (gang song)
Kingdom: Plantae (2715)
Phylum: Pinophyta (22)
Class: Pinopsida (36)
Order: Pinales (35)
Family: Pinaceae (18)
Genus: Pinus (10)
Epithet: rigida P. Mill. (3)
rigida => stiff, inflexible
Climate: temperate
Habitat: mesophytic
Habit: tree
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