Crimean pine

Description of look: tree 40 m high with diameter of trunk of 4 m.

Bark at old trees from below dark-brown deeply jointed, from above reddish.

The krone at adult trees is formed by strong long branches.

Escapes pale yellow to gray-brown, happen oranzhevaty, brilliant, at the beginning are densely covered with the descending eminences of sheet pillows. Kidneys are conic, are covered with brown adjacent scales, large (to 20 mm of length), sharp, with the brown leathery scales wide, small dissect at the edges which are stuck together by pitch.

Needles long (from 8 to 16 cm), 1,5-2,5 mm of width, dark green, brilliant, unusually rigid and prickly. The coniferous bunch at the basis is surrounded by fringed brown, is later gray opaque film (to 3 cm). Cones are sedentary, 5-10 cm of length, 4,5-6 cm of thickness, are located one by one or on 2-4, brilliant, ovoid and conic, ripen for the third year. Guards from above brown and ochry, almost rhombic, from above rounded off, are cut through by six clear noticeable radial ribs of which two form sharply acting cross Kiel. Vershinka of guard oval, sometimes priostrenny, grayish or reddish. Seeds larger and are lighter, than at Scotch pine, but viability is lower (9-13%); 5-7 mm long, gray-brown, is more rare almost black to whitish, with black speck and long light wing (to 3 cm) than incorrectly oval parusovidny form.