Flower Notes:
Monoecious, yellow, and pink
Foliage Notes:
Green (Soft bluish-green foliage, finer than most pines)
Stem Notes:
slender with hair tufts, pubescence falls off with age
Soil Notes:
Widely adaptable to different soils, but prefers fertile, moist, well-drained soils
Diagnostic Characteristics:
Needles (2-4" long) in fascicles of 5, with waxy lines on the two inner surfaces. Needles are soft, slender, and finely toothed. Resinous buds are 0.25" long and sharp pointed. Cones are 3-8" long by 1.5" wide. Stems are slender with tufts of short hairs below insertion of fascicles.