Shore Pines grow - you guessed it - on the shore! While tolerant of other growing conditions, these pines do best in sandy coastal regions or rocky substrate in mountain regions. Shore Pines often sport low hanging branches with clusters of deep green needles that grow in seemingly random directions. These trees are crucial to the diet of many Pacific Northwest birds, which eat the oily seeds from inside the Shore Pine’s many cones.
Image by Walter Siegmund, Wiki Creative Commons
Foliage
Shore Pine needles grow in bunches of grey green in seemingly every direction from the branch. Most of these needles fade to a yellow tip
Seeds or Cones
Woody cones hang off branches, with a tight spiral pattern that opens up with age.
All illustrations by A.S. Longman
Did you know?
The Shore Pine is unaffected by the salt spray from crashing waves
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