Fig. 163, Cone and seed. Fig. 164, Magnified leaf-section. Fig. 165, Habit of the tree.
IX. PINEAE
Seed-wing articulate, short, ineffective. Leaves binate, the sheath persistent. One species only.
24. PINUS PINEA
- 1753 P. pinea Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1000.
- 1778 P. sativa Lamarck, Fl. Franç. ii. 200.
- 1854 P. maderiensis Tenore in Ann. Sci. Nat. sér. 4, ii. 379.
Spring-shoots uninodal. Leaves from 12 to 20 cm. long; resin-ducts external. Conelet mutic, slightly larger in the second year. Cones triennial, from 10 to 14 cm. long, ovoid or subglobose; apophyses lustrous nut-brown, convex, of large size, the umbo double; seeds large with a short, loosely articulated, deciduous wing.
A species of the Mediterranean Basin, from Portugal to Syria. Its northern limit is in southern France and northern Italy, but it is cultivated in the southern parts of the British Isles and is a familiar ornament of park and garden in southern Europe, and is valued for its peculiar beauty and for its large savory nuts. In wood anatomy as well as in the seed it agrees with the Gerardianae of the Soft Pines.