Eastern White Pine
Pinus strobus · Pinaceae · 스트로브잣나무
How to spot it
Soft, flexible blue-green needles in bundles of five, and long cones without prickles.
Look
- Leaves
- Soft, flexible blue-green needles grow in bundles of five.
- Flowers
- Makes male and female cones instead of flowers. Male cones are cylindrical; young female cones are reddish light green.
- Fruit
- Long, cylindrical brown cones are resinous, with scale tips lacking prickles. Cones mature in the second growing season.
- Bark
- Young bark is smooth; older bark is dark with long, rounded ridges.
Where it grows
- In Korea
- Planted
- Native to
- Central and eastern Canada and the central and eastern United States
- Ecology
- Seeds feed birds and small mammals, and the crown provides shelter. In the wild it also grows on sandy or rocky ridges.
Sources
- NC State Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox
- 국립수목원 국가표준재배식물목록(개정)
- USDA Forest Service / Silvics of North America
- 국립생물자원관, 국가생물종목록 I(2019)
- 대전광역시 한밭수목원, 제4차 수목원진흥실시계획(2019–2023)
- 대구광역시 (2019), 제2차 대구광역시 도시림 등 조성·관리계획
- 한국농촌경제연구원 — 조경수 관측월보 2025년 12월(한국조경수협회 게시 원문)
- Oneida Nation — Onʌyoteˀa·ká· Symbolism
- Haudenosaunee Confederacy 공식 — Symbols
- Onondaga Nation 공식 — Hiawatha Belt
- 국가생물종지식정보시스템 식물도감 (스트로브잣나무)
- 한국향토문화전자대전(디지털청주문화대전) '옥화자연휴양림'