Melinda Myers

Balkan Pine

Botanical Name

Pinus peuce

Min Zone

4

Max Zone

7

Height

30 to 60 feet

Flowers

Monoecious

Fruit

Cone: nearly cylindrical, 3 to 6 inches, light brown, resinous

Light

Full sun

Soil

Moist, well-drained

Planting & Care

• May be difficult to find in nurseries
• Relatively tolerant of many soils as long as well-drained
• Somewhat soil salt tolerant
• Slow growing

Problems

Cankers, needle blights, scale, webworm, spittlebug, shoot borer, pine wilt, Zimmerman pine moth, sawfly

Varieties

• Pacific Blue - blue needles and more upright habit than the species