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
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