Picture Notes:  Pictures 12 to 15 are Male cones.

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Distribution:  Greece, Caucasus, Asia Minor.

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Hardiness Zone:  USDA Zones 4-6       (view USDA zone map)

Size:   50-75 ft. tall, with a spread of 25-35 ft.

Form:   Needleleaved Evergreen tree. Narrowly pyramidal, with stiff horizontal branching.

Bark:   Bark is smooth, grayish-brown, becoming slightly fissured on older trees.

Stem/Bud:   Winter buds, brown, and not resinous.

Leaves:   Needles are 3/4 - l l/2 inches long, somewhat 2-ranked, flattened, with a notched tip, lustrous dark green in color, with 2 white stomatic lines beneath.

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Flower:   Plants are monoecious. Cones are reddish in color, pistillate produced only at the top, staminate produced throughout.

Fruit:   Cones are cylindrical, 5-6 inches long, upright, reddish-brown in color.

Uses:   Specimen, screen.

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Notes:    Needles glossy green and look a little artificial.

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