Pine trees: Identification and uses

by Rex Trulove

The lodgepole or jack pine (Pinus contorta) is a wide spread softwood coniferous tree occurring mostly over roughly the western half of the United States and Canada, as well as in some isolated areas where it has been intr...read more

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by Jason Hernandez

Pine is surely the best known evergreen tree... or is it? Most of the "Christmas-tree" type of evergreens are not really pines at all, but spruce, fir, or Douglas-fir. What sets pine apart from these others is the way th...read more

by Juliana Manderico

Pine tree is the largest group of conifers. It is a cone bearing tree that scattered throughout the Northern Hemisphere. There are only four different kinds of pine, larch, spruce, hemlock and fir. They differ from pine ge...read more

by Lime Green Sphere

Pines are one of the easiest to identify of the conifers and have a wide variety of uses. As you may already know, pine trees are not a single species, as there are many different species of pines that thrive throughout th...read more