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Common pine (lat. Pinus sylvostris) is a widespread species of the Pine genus in the Pinaceae family. It grows naturally in Europe and Asia.

The tree is 25-40 m high and 0.5-1.2 m in diameter. 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 in the lower part of the trunk is thick, scaly, gray-brown, with deep cracks. Flakes of bark forming plates of irregular shape. In the upper part of the trunk and on the branches, the bark is thin, in the form of flakes (flakes), orange-red.

Branching is single-jointed. Shoots are initially green, then by the end of the first summer become gray-light brown.

The buds are ovoid-cone-shaped, orange-brown, covered with white resin more often with a thin, less often with a thicker layer.

Needles are arranged in two in a bundle, (2.5 -) 4-6 (-9) cm long, 1.5-2 mm thick, gray - or bluish-green, usually slightly curved, the edges are small-toothed, live 2-6 (-9) years (in Central Russia 2-3 years).

The branches and trunk of a pine tree are riddled with resin passages that are filled with resin, usually called "Oleoresin". Oleoresin is of great importance for the plant: it heals wounds and repels pests.

Common pine is a monoecious plant, but with a predominance of flowers of the same sex. In other words, some specimens usually have more female inflorescences, while others have more male inflorescences.

A widespread tree of Eurasia, starting from Spain and great Britain and further East to the Aldan river basin and the middle reaches of the Amur river in Eastern Siberia. In the North, the common pine grows up to Lapland, in the South it is found in Mongolia and China. It is listed in the Red books of Belgorod, Voronezh, Samara, Ulyanovsk regions, Russia and Ukraine.

Forms clean plantings and grows together with spruce, birch, aspen, oak; low-demand for soil and soil conditions, often occupies areas unsuitable for other types of areas: sands, swamps. Adapted to different temperature conditions. It is light-loving and resumes well in cutting areas and fires. as the main forest-forming agent, it is widely used in forest-culture practice in all climatic zones. In the North of the range it rises to an altitude of 1000 m above sea level, in the South to 1200-2500 m above sea level.

Very light-loving. Wind-resistant, especially on sand (on wet soils, the root system is formed by the surface and the windiness of the pine increases significantly). It can grow under the influence of strong sea winds. It is undemanding to soils. It is able to tolerate severe droughts and high dryness of the air and soil. But it is found in a wide range of humidities, including swamps. USDA hardiness zones: 3-7.