Citation: Miller, Gard. Dict. edn 8 (1768).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Aleppo pine.

Description:
Tree to 20 m high; bark smooth and silvery-grey at first, becoming reddish-brown, fissured and scaly; winter buds c. 8 mm long, the scales fringed and often reflexed at the tips; leaves in pairs, 5-8 cm long, c. 1 mm diam., greyish-green.

Female cones 1-3 together, on thick scaly stalks, reddish, ovoid-conic, 5-11 cm long, more or less symmetrical.

Published illustration: Hora (1981) The Oxford encyclopedia of trees, p. 67.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: FR, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, KI, SE.   Native to the Mediterranean region and western Asia. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: No flowering time is available

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available