Limber Pine
- Botanical Name
- Pinus flexilis
- Min Zone
- 4
- Max Zone
- 7
- Height
- 30 to 50 feet
- Width
- 15 to 35 feet
- Flowers
- Monoecious, male flowers are clustered, female flowers solitary or in 2's or 3's
- Fruit
- Cone: heavily scaled, sap covered, 3 to 5 inches
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Soil
- Moist, well-drained, adaptable
- Planting & Care
- Adaptable to dry soil and wind once established
- Better tolerance of salt spray than other 5-needled pines
- Less troubled by pests than other pines
- Branches are flexible and less prone to storm damage
- Needles are held up to 6 years on tree
- Problems
- Cankers, needle blights, scale, webworm, spittlebug, shoot borer
- Varieties
- Vanderwolf's Pyramid - bright blue-green needles on a pyramidal tree, good specimen
- Glauca Pendula - prostrate spreading habit, blue-green needles, grown as a groundcover or small tree
- Extra Blue - very good blue color, pyramidal habit, 25 feet tall by 15 feet wide
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