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Plant Identification Learning Module:
Ornamentals

Pine (Pinus spp.)

Tall, coniferous trees which are evergreen and monoecious. Leaves produced are of two kinds: scale-like, soon falling off the tree, or needle-shaped, long and borne in clusters of 2–5. The fruit is a male or female woody pine cone.

Stand of longleaf pines
Chuck Bargeron, University of Georgia, Bugwood.org
Pine sapling at "grass" stage
Joseph O’Brien, USDA Forest Service, Bugwood.org
Pine foliage
Pine needles
National Junior Horticultural Association
Pine shoot
Purdue
Pine male and female cones
Photo by John Giezentanner