
Swiss Stone Pine
- Botanical Name
- Pinus cembra
- Hardiness
- Zones 3b to 7
- Height
- 30 to 40 feet
- Width
- 15 to 25 feet
- Fruit
- Erect cones, 2-3" long, never open and fall off tree in spring of 3rd year
- Light
- Full sun
- Soil
- Well-drained, loamy
- Planting & Care
- Transplants easily
- Good conifer for residential landscapes
- Slow growing
- Problems
- Cankers, needle blights, scale, webworm, spittlebug, shoot borer
- Varieties
- Nana - slow growing dwarf, 20'
- Prairie Statesman Swiss Stone Pine (Pinus cembra 'Herman') - very upright form (30 feet tall by 15 feet wide), emerald green needles, very cold hardy and drought tolerant
- Stricta - columnar, blue-green needles, dense
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