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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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And you are also part champion black walnut, part champion sycamore, and part champion bristlecone pine. Still, a man who had spent a lifetime nurturing exotic plants - a mountain aspen, bristlecone pine, sequoia gigantea - to make them grow at sea level knows that a sealed faucet is a sin, and that laws banning gray water are a crime against all living plants. No, not Aerosmith--it's a 4,723-year-old bristlecone pine (Pinus called the Methuselah Tree. |
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