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Pinus brutia
Pinus brutia (Turkish, Calabrian, or Brutia pine), eastern Mediterranean conifer from the Balkans to Iran; 3.8 million ha in Türkiye; sessile cones, serotinous fire adaptation, timber, resin, and pine honey uses.
Pinus cembra
Pinus cembra (Swiss stone pine, arolla pine, Arve, Zirbelkiefer) is an alpine Pinaceae tree of the Alps and Carpathians at 1,500–2,400 m, often forming the tree line, whose wingless seeds are dispersed almost solely by the spotted nutcracker.
Pinus densiflora
Pinus densiflora, Japanese red pine (aka-matsu) or Korean red pine (sonamu), is a two-needled East Asian pine, pioneer species, 26% of Korean forests, succeeding to Quercus oak forests.
Pinus gerardiana
Pinus gerardiana (chilgoza pine, Jalghoza) is a Near Threatened Himalayan pine of Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Tibet, grown for large edible wingless seeds selling at USD 20–100/kg, with natural regeneration in only ~5% of its range.
Pinus koraiensis
Pinus koraiensis, Korean pine (channamu, 잣나무), a large East Asian white pine native to the Russian Far East, Northeast China, Korea, and Japan, grown for soft timber and edible pine nuts; IUCN Least Concern but decreasing.
Pinus massoniana
Pinus massoniana (马尾松), Masson's pine or Chinese red pine, is a Pinaceae conifer native to central and southern China and Taiwan, reaching 45 m; China's major timber and resin pine, threatened by pine wilt disease.
Pinus merkusii
Pinus merkusii (Sumatran pine, Merkus pine, Mindoro pine), a tropical Pinaceae pine native to northern Sumatra and Luzon and Mindoro; the only pine naturally crossing the equator, IUCN Vulnerable, resin-tapped in Indonesian plantations.
Pinus nigra
Pinus nigra (European black pine, Austrian pine, Corsican pine) is a Mediterranean to Caucasus pine with five generally accepted subspecies, IUCN Least Concern status, heavy use in forestry, and low post-fire resilience.
Pinus pinaster
Pinus pinaster, maritime pine (pino marítimo, pino negral), a western-central Mediterranean pine of family Pinaceae; thick-barked, serotinous-coned fire-adapted timber and resin tree; IUCN Least Concern; invasive where planted, e.g. southwest Australia.
Pinus roxburghii
Pinus roxburghii, chir pine or long-leaved Indian pine (चीड), a Himalayan pine from Pakistan to NW India at 450–2300 m; dominant resin and timber tree, IUCN Least Concern, needles in threes, fire-resistant.
Pinus sibirica
Pinus sibirica (Siberian pine, Siberian stone pine, 西伯利亚五针松) is a five-needled taiga pine of NE Europe to N China, grown for edible cedar nuts, oil, and timber; closely related to Pinus cembra.
Pinus sylvestris
Pinus sylvestris, Scots pine, is the most widely distributed pine in the world, native from Scotland to Siberia. A 15–30 m two-needle pine, fire-adapted, shade-intolerant, and the tree of Scotland's Caledonian pinewoods.
Pinus tabuliformis
Pinus tabuliformis, known as Chinese pine and Chinese red pine, is a coniferous tree native to China and Korea, and is the principal afforestation species of northern China.
Pinus thunbergii
Pinus thunbergii, Japanese black pine (kuromatsu, haesong), a coastal conifer native to Korea and central/southern Japan, used for erosion control and bonsai, threatened by pine wilt disease, Least Concern, invasive in parts of eastern North America and New Zealand.
Pinus yunnanensis
Pinus yunnanensis, the Yunnan pine, is a pine native to south-central China and northern Myanmar, named in 1899. It dominates Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau forests at 700 to 3000 m.
Stone pine
Stone pine (Pinus pinea), Mediterranean umbrella pine of Section Pinea, source of pignoli pine nuts; symbol of Rome, ~6,000 t/yr world shelled production, threatened by Leptoglossus occidentalis and Diplodia blight.