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
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