Pinus brutia
Pinus brutia
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Tree with a straight trunk and branches, up to 25 m. Twigs glabrous, usually reddish in the first year, becoming greyish brown, rarely all greyish. Buds non-resinous, the scales recurved and fimbriate. Leaves up to 180 x 0,5-1,5 mm, flaccid, light green. Cones elongate, brown, usually more than 2 borne together. Scales usually with a depression containing the umbo. Peduncles very short to almost absent, the cones erect or ascending, never deflexed. Frequently a dominant forest tree, s.l.-1200 m .
S. Italy, S. Aegean, Crimea, Cyprus, N. Iraq, W. Syria, W. Caucasus. In the broad sense, an E. Medit. element.
