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Pinus sylvestris is a plant, a widespread species of the genus pine (Pinus) of the Pine family (Pinaceae). It grows naturally in Europe and Asia.
Tree 25-40 m high. Trunk diameter 0.5-1.2 m. The tallest trees (up to 45-50 m) grow on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea. The trunk is straight. The crown is highly raised, cone-shaped, and then rounded, wide, with branches horizontally arranged in whorls.
The bark at the bottom of the trunk is thick, scaly, gray-brown, with deep cracks. The bark scales form irregularly shaped plates. In the upper part of the trunk and on the branches, the bark is thin, flaky (flaky), orange-red. The branching is single-stranded. The shoots are initially green, then by the end of the first summer they become gray-light brown. The buds are ovoid-cone-shaped, orange-brown, covered with white resin, often in a thin, rarely in a thicker layer.
Male cones are 8-12 mm, yellow or pink. Female cones (2.5) 3-6 (-7.5) cm long, cone-shaped, symmetrical or almost symmetrical, single or 2-3 pieces, dull from gray-light brown to gray-green when ripe; ripen in November - December, 20 months after pollination; open from February to April and soon fall off. The scales of the cones are almost rhombic, flat or slightly convex with a small navel, rarely hooked, with a pointed apex. The seeds are black, 4-5 mm, with a 12-20 mm membranous wing. In an ordinary lowland pine forest, an average of about 120 million seeds fall per hectare annually, from which approximately 10 million seedlings grow, but in a hundred-year-old pine forest only 500-600 trees grow per hectare.
Introduced into the Botanical Garden. Seeds of this species were brought from Minsk and sown in the Botanical Garden by Academician F.N. Rusanov in 1954. In the spring of 1955, they were sown in the nursery and the introduction of these species was studied; also in 04/19/1955 they were planted at the Coniferous Tree Nursery. Currently, there are 2 mature years of trees of this species growing in this area.
