Melinda Myers

Austrian Pine

Botanical Name

Pinus nigra

Min Zone

3

Max Zone

7

Height

50 to 60 feet

Width

20 to 40 feet

Flowers

Staminate male flowers clusted and yellow, pistillate female flowers are yellow-green

Fruit

Cone: solitary or in clusters, 2 to 3 inches long by 2 inches wide, scales often with prickle, shiny yellow-brown, persist for 2 years

Light

Full sun

Soil

Adaptable

Planting & Care

• Tolerant of salt spray
• Fairly tolerant of heat, pollution and urban conditions

Problems

Zimmerman moth, shoot borer, sphaeropsis blight, pine nematode, Diplodia tip blight, lophodermium needle cast, wood rots, European pine sawfly

Varieties

• Hornibrookiana - dwarf, 2 feet tall by 6 feet wide
• Pyramidalis - narrow, pyramidal form, long 4 to 5 inch bluish-green needles