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bristlecone pine |
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bristlecone pine, common name for the pine ponderosa pine or western yellow pine (P. ponderosa), is a hard pine second only to the Douglas fir as a commercial timber tree in North America. The white pine (P. ..... Click the link for more information. species Pinus longaeva, found in the White Mountains of California. Specimens are known that are nearly 5,000 years old. bristlecone pine [‚bris·əl‚kōn ′pīn] (botany) A small slow-growing evergreen tree of the genusPinusthat grows at high altitudes in the western United States, having dense branches with rust-brown bark and short needles in bunches of five and thorn-tipped cone scales. The two types areP. longaeva, which lives longer than any other tree (over 4000 years), andP. monophylla, the single-leaf pinyon. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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He will continue as a Member of the Management Board of M&M and of the Boards of Bristlecone Inc. The article was about the bristlecone pine trees in Nevada and the national champion bristlecone pine in the (California side) White Mountains. The comparison between these two species is not exact, however, since the oldest bristlecone pines grow only at high elevations in an arid desert, notes Thomas P. |
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