
Jack Pine
- Botanical Name
- Pinus banksiana
- Min Zone
- 2
- Max Zone
- 6
- Height
- 35 to 50 feet
- Flowers
- Monoecious
- Fruit
- Cone: pointing forward, curved at the tapered point, 2 to 3 inches, very persistant, opens with heat (fire)
- Light
- Full sun
- Soil
- Well-drained, sandy, acidic
- Planting & Care
- Tranplants easily
- Intolerant of high pH and clay soils
- Avoid wet soils
- Grows in poor soils not tolerated by most other plants
- Suitable for colder regions
- Problems
- Cankers, needle blights, scale, webworm, spittlebug, shoot borer, sawflies, tussock moth
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