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Published In: Prod. Fl. Nap. lxxii. 1811. (Prod. Fl. Nap.) Name publication detail
 

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Nomenclature: 2. Pinus brutia Ten., Fl. Nap. 1: 72 (1811-1815); Boiss., Fl. Orient. 5: 695 (1884). Pinus halepensis Mill. subsp. brutia (Ten.) Holmboe, Bergens Mus. Skr. ser. 2, 1 (2): 29 (1914). Type: [Italy] in nemoribus Calabriae occidentalis, Aspromonte, Tenore. [Plate 23]
Common name: Cyprus Pine; Turkish Pine; אורן קפריסאי.
Habitat: Introduced. Commonly used for afforestation, often escapes from cultivation. Colonizing artificial cliffs near newly constracted roads, abandoned fields, and lands dominated by semi-shrubs and almost devoid of annuals. Upper and Lower Galilee, Mt. Carmel, Esdraelon Plain, Mt. Gilboa, Samaria, Shefela, Judean Mts. New to the Flora Palaestina.
Area distribution: Mediterranean and Irano-Anatolian.
Notes:      It is a very important timber tree in Turkey. Casual trees of Pinus brutia and hybrids of Pinus halepensis X Pinus brutia occour among trees of P. halepensis in shrub and semishrub associations (Danin, Fl. Medit. 10: 135, 2000).

 

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     Tree with straight trunk and branches, up to 25 m, crown open. Bark deeply furrowed, furrows gray outside, rust-coloured inside. Leaves 12-18 cm, in pairs, thick, rigid, dark green. Staminate cones in clusters on the base of annual shoots. Ovulate cones 6-11 x 4-5 cm, elongated, erect or ascending, sometimes 3-6 cones born on very short peduncles or sessile. Seeds 7-8 x 5 mm, wings 2- 2.5 times longer than seed. Fl. March-April.

 
 
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