View source for Pinus contorta var. contorta

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|name=Pinus contorta subsp. bolanderi
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|hierarchy=Pinaceae;Pinus;Pinus contorta;Pinus contorta var. contorta
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees </b>to 10m; trunk to 0.5m diam., straight, leaning landward in protected stands, or contorted and bent when not, or reduced to shrub form by wind shear and salt spray; mature crown irregularly rounded or flat. <b>Bark</b> evidently and irregularly furrowed, cross-checked into small, square or rectangular, orange-brown to purple-brown scaly plates. <b>Branches</b> spreading, often contorted. <b>Leaves</b> 2–7cm × 0.7–0.9(–1.1)mm, dark green, apex acute to broadly acute or blunt. <b>Seed</b> cones maturing and shedding seeds in 2 years, persistent or variously serotinous, strongly asymmetric, strongly recurved, often in whorls, proximal outer apophyses strongly domed.</span><!--

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|habitat=Maritime fog forests, bogs, and dry foothills
|elevation=0–600m
|distribution=B.C.;Alaska;Calif.;Oreg.;Wash.
|discussion=<p><i>Pinus contorta </i>var.<i> contorta</i> is fire successional. It is mostly a low-quality tree for timber use.</p>
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|family=Pinaceae
|habitat=Maritime fog forests, bogs, and dry foothills
|elevation=0–600m
|distribution=B.C.;Alaska;Calif.;Oreg.;Wash.
|reference=None
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|special status=Endemic
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