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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 monticola

Pinus monticola, western white pine (mountain white pine, Idaho white pine, silver pine), a large five-needle timber pine of western North America, devastated by introduced white pine blister rust and now restored through resistant breeding programs.

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 oocarpa

Pinus oocarpa (ocote pine, pino ocote, egg-cone pine) is a pine native from Mexico to Nicaragua, dominant in Central American pine forests, valued for timber, pulp, and resin, with high resistance to pitch canker.

Pinus palustris

Pinus palustris, longleaf pine or southern pine, is a fire-adapted evergreen conifer of the southeastern US coastal plain, with a grass-stage seedling, needles in threes, and the largest cones of any eastern North American pine; its ecosystem has fallen about 97 percent since settlement.

Pinus patula

Pinus patula, Mexican weeping pine (pino colorado), is a fast-growing Mexican pine, the leading plantation softwood in South Africa (333,566 ha) and widely used for pulp and timber across tropical Africa and the Andes.

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 ponderosa

Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine or western yellow pine, is a widespread, drought- and fire-tolerant timber pine of western North America, from British Columbia to Mexico, with thick bark, 300-600 year lifespans, and five recognized subspecies.

Pinus radiata

Pinus radiata (radiata pine, Monterey pine), a coastal California and Baja California island conifer, is the world's most widely planted softwood plantation tree, dominating New Zealand, Chile, and Australian forestry with 25-35 year rotations.

Pinus resinosa

Pinus resinosa, red pine or Norway pine, a fire-dependent conifer of the Great Lakes and St Lawrence region; 200-400 year lifespan, two needles per fascicle, regeneration from seed after fire, widely planted in the Lake States.

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 strobus

Pinus strobus, eastern white pine (northern white pine, Weymouth pine), a large five-needled North American conifer up to 150 ft tall, valued timber species threatened by white pine blister rust and white pine weevil.

Pinus subg. Strobus

Pinus subg. Strobus, the white or soft pines, is one of the two subgenera of the genus Pinus, holding about 48 species including white pines, stone pines, and pinyons.

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 taeda

Pinus taeda, the loblolly pine, is a needled evergreen pine native to the central and southeastern United States, the South's most important timber species on roughly 29 million acres.

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 virginiana

Pinus virginiana, Virginia pine (scrub pine, Jersey pine), a small two-needle pine of the eastern United States, a shade-intolerant pioneer on dry uplands, grown for pulpwood, Christmas trees, and mine-spoil reclamation.

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.

Pinyon–juniper woodland

Pinyon–juniper woodland (PJ woodland), semiarid North American vegetation of pinyon pines and junipers covering over 190,000 km² of the western US; three types (persistent woodlands, savannas, wooded shrublands), centennial fire cycles, post-settlement expansion, and pinyon jay decline.

Piper (plant)

Piper, also known as the Piper genus, is a genus of flowering plants in the pepper family, comprising roughly 2,400 to 2,600 tropical species including black pepper and betel.

Piper aduncum

Piper aduncum (spiked pepper, matico) is a 2–7 m Piperaceae shrub native from Mexico to tropical South America, invasive in the Pacific and Southeast Asia, used in traditional medicine and as a dillapiol-rich essential oil source.

Piperaceae

Piperaceae, the pepper family, is a pantropical Piperales family of five genera and 3,000–3,600 species, dominated by Piper (black pepper, betel, kava) and Peperomia, with three subfamilies and a Late Cretaceous fossil record.

Piperales

Piperales, a magnoliid order of flowering plants (pepper family, Piperaceae; birthwort family, Aristolochiaceae), about 4,200 species in 16 genera, largest angiosperm order outside eudicots and monocots, includes black pepper Piper nigrum.

Pistachio

Pistachio, the nut of Pistacia vera, a dioecious wind-pollinated Anacardiaceae tree native to Central Asia and northeast Iran; alternate-bearing crop led by the United States, with mandatory aflatoxin testing and about 3 acre-feet water per acre in California.

Pistacia atlantica

Pistacia atlantica (Atlas pistachio, Mt. Atlas mastic tree, Bétoum) is an Anacardiaceae tree native from the Canary Islands and Mediterranean to the W. Himalaya, drought-tolerant, resin- and gall-producing, IUCN near threatened.

Pistacia lentiscus

Pistacia lentiscus, the mastic tree or lentisk, a Mediterranean Anacardiaceae shrub; source of mastic resin, Chios mastic gum (var. chia), EMA traditional herbal medicine for dyspepsia and minor wounds.

Pistacia terebinthus

Pistacia terebinthus, the terebinth or turpentine tree, is a Mediterranean Anacardiaceae shrub or tree; fruit eaten as snack or coffee-like drink, resin used medicinally, IUCN Least Concern.