Pinus nigra ssp. nigra

  • Specimen trees
  • 4 x tr., extra wide spacing
  • wire rootballed
  • width 100 – 150 cm
  • girth 25 – 30 cm
SKU: PNNI10025 Category:
 

Description

General information

Pinus nigra ssp. nigra

Austrian pine


Additive

(= P. nigra var. austriaca, P. austriaca)

Distribution

From Austria to central Italy, Greece and Yugoslavia, on medium deep to shallow, moderately nutrient-rich, well-drained, sandy or loamy soils, frequently on limestone.

Habit

Imposing, large conifer, when young broadly conical with chandelier-like, symmetrical branches, in maturity with a picturesque, broadly spreading, often umbrella-shaped, flattened crown. Fast growing.

Size

Height 20m-30m (45m), Breite 8m-10m (15m)

Bark

Deeply and coarsely furrowed, grey-black scaly bark, in maturity very decorative.

Needles

Evergreen, in pairs, distinctively dark green and stiff, prickly, 8 to 16 cm long

Cones

Cones are 5 to 9 cm long, almost symmetrical, light brown, empty cones are shed in spring.

Roots

Main roots are strong, deep.

Site

Sun.

Soil

Undemanding, on all dry to moist, well-drained, even nutrient-poor soils, acid to strongly alkaline, thrives even on humus-free, dry, hot limestone (karst regions on the Mediterranean).

Characteristics

Reliably frost tolerant, very good wind resistance, relatively tolerant of salt, unusually tolerant of heat and summer drought, withstands chronic exposure to atmospheric pollution by SO2, tolerates urban sites.

Utilisations

Solitary, ornamental tree.

Additional information

Nursery

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