Pinus lambertiana Douglas
Sugar pine
Sugar pines are natives of western North America. They live up to 800 years. The name “sugar pine” derives from the sweet smell of freshly cut wood; the sap can be extracted to make a sweet that is said to compete with maple sugar.
Plants: Trees reach 98–164′ (30–50 m) tall, with a maximum of 246′ (75 m). The trunk is 3–6′ (90–180 cm) in diameter, up to a maximum of 11′ (3.3 m). The crown is a tall, narrow cone, becoming more rounded with age. Bark is red- to gray-brown.
Leaves: Needles occur in groups of five, each 1¾–4 ⨉ 1/32″ (5–10 cm ⨉ 1.5 mm). They are straight, pliable, and blue-green in color.
Flowers: Red-brown, inconspicuous.
Fruits: The immature cones are up to 1′ long ⨉ 1¼″ around (30 ⨉ 3.2 cm), tightly packed and almost smooth, purplish. Mature cones expand to up to 1′ (35 cm) in length—longer than those of any other conifer.
Habitats: Mixed conifer forests; over 80% is in California.
For further information, see the Pinus comparison tables.
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5/3/2007 · Death Valley Area · By Rhonda Tatiana Schorer 
ID is uncertain 
| Kingdom | Plantae | Plants, but not fungi, lichens, or algae (from Stearn's Botanical Latin) |
| Subkingdom | Tracheobionta | Vascular plants—plants with a “circulatory system” for delivering water and nutrients |
| Division | Coniferophyta | Conifers—cone-bearing trees (and a few shrubs) |
| Class | Pinopsida | Gymnosperms such as cedars, Douglas-firs, cypresses, firs, junipers, kauri, larches, pines, hemlocks, redwoods, spruces, and yews |
| Order | Pinales | Cone-bearing plants: cedar, cypress, fir, juniper, larch, pine, redwood, spruce, yew, and others |
| Family | Pinaceae | Pine family: cedars, firs, hemlocks, larches, pines and spruces |
| Genus | Pinus | Latin for “pine” |
| Species | lambertiana | Named for English botanist and conifer expert Aylmer Bourke Lambert (1761-1842) |
Pinus lambertiana description by Thomas H. Kent, not updated.
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