'Alba', 'Fastigiata', 'Nana', 'Pendula', 'Sea Urchin', 'Umbraculifera' Young needles are whitish-green in the spring, green during the summerĭwarf shrub, compact, and needles are thin and blue VIDEO Created by Homegrown featuring Jeff Owen, Area Extension Forestry Specialist for NC State Extension Profile Video: See this plant in the following landscapes: Mountain Ridge Top Garden - North Lawn and Upper Drive Border Bonsai Garden Cultivars / Varieties: Spider mites are occasional visitors in some areas. Insect problems include white pine weevil, bark beetles, white pine shoot borer, Zimmerman moth larvae, pine sawfly, scale, and aphids. Insects, Diseases, or Other Plant Problems: It is susceptible to blights, canker, and rusts, especially white pine blister rust, which is usually fatal. Cones are narrow cylindrical, scales whiten at the apex.Needles are bluish-green, soft, pliable, and in fives.Gymnosperm tree with branches and twigs whorled.Select plants with a low flammability rating for the sites nearest your home. Alternatively, plant it in a native, butterfly, pollinator, or nighttime garden, as it will attract butterflies and other pollinators, songbirds, and small mammals.įire Risk: This plant has a high flammability rating and should not be planted within the defensible space of your home. This plant is an attractive, ornamental, landscape tree, singly and in hedges, borders, or woodland areas. The pine cones are sold as tree decorations for models, model railroading, and Christmas decorations. It is utilized as a Christmas tree in large areas such as parks, commercial areas, and estates. This pine is an important timber tree (perhaps more so in the 18th and 19th centuries than now) valued for its lightweight, straight-grained wood. It is intolerant of many air pollutants such as sulfur dioxide and ozone, salts, and alkaline soils. It prefers full sun moist, well-drained, fertile sandy loams and cool, humid climates. It may grow 50 to 80 feet tall and 20 to 40 feet wide.Įastern white pine grows naturally in high, dry, sandy and rocky ridges and is tolerant of a wide range of soil conditions. This pine’s origin is in the northeastern United States and Canada. Phonetic Spelling PI-nus STRO-bus DescriptionĮastern white pine is an evergreen conifer tree in the Pinaceae (pine) family.
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