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|accepted_name=Pinus edulis
|accepted_authority=Engelmann in Wislizenus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in Wislizenus,Mem. Tour N. Mexico
|place=88. 1848
|year=1848
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|common_names=Pinyon;piñón
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|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Caryopitys edulis
|authority=(Engelmann) Small
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|name=Pinus cembroides var. edulis
|authority=(Engelmann) Voss
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|hierarchy=Pinaceae;Pinus;Pinus edulis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Pinaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Pinus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Pinus edulis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 2
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or trees to 21m; trunk to 0.6m diam., strongly tapering, erect; crown conic, rounded, dense. <b>Bark</b> red-brown, shallowly and irregularly furrowed, ridges scaly, rounded. <b>Branches</b> persistent to near trunk base; twigs pale red-brown to tan, rarely glaucous, aging gray-brown to gray, glabrous to papillose-puberulent. <b>Buds</b> ovoid to ellipsoid, red-brown, 0.5–1cm, resinous. <b>Leaves</b> (1–)2(–3) per fascicle, upcurved, persisting 4–6 years, 2–4cm × (0.9–)1–1.5mm, connivent, 2-sided (1-leaved fascicles with leaves 2-grooved, 3-leaved fascicles with leaves 3-sided), blue-green, all surfaces marked with pale stomatal bands, particularly the adaxial, margins entire or finely serrulate, apex narrowly acute to subulate; sheath 0.5–0.7cm, scales soon recurved, forming rosette, shed early. <b>Pollen</b> cones ellipsoid, ca. 7mm, yellowish to red-brown. <b>Seed</b> cones maturing in 2 years, shedding seeds and falling soon thereafter, spreading, symmetric, ovoid before opening, depressed-ovoid to nearly globose when open, ca. (3.5–)4(–5)cm, pale yellow- to pale red-brown, resinous, nearly sessile to short-stalked; apophyses thickened, raised, angulate; umbo subcentral, slightly raised or depressed, truncate or umbilicate. <b>Seeds</b> mostly ellipsoid to obovoid; body 10–15mm, brown, wingless. <b>2n</b> =24.</span><!--

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|habitat=Dry mountain slopes, mesas, plateaus, and pinyon-juniper woodland
|elevation=1500–2100(–2700)m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Colo.;N.Mex.;Okla.;Tex.;Utah;Wyo.;Mexico in Chihuahua.
|discussion=<p><i>Pinus edulis</i> var. fallax Little (P. californiarum <i></i>subsp.<i> fallax</i> (Little) D.K.Bailey) appears to combine features of <i>P. edulis</i> and <i>P. monophylla</i>. More study is needed.</p><!--
--><p>Seeds of <i>Pinus edulis</i>, the commonest southwestern United States pinyon, are much eaten and traded by Native Americans.</p><!--
--><p>Pinyon (<i>Pinus edulis</i>) is the state tree of New Mexico.</p>
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name=Pinus edulis
|author=
|authority=Engelmann in Wislizenus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Caryopitys edulis;Pinus cembroides var. edulis
|basionyms=
|family=Pinaceae
|habitat=Dry mountain slopes, mesas, plateaus, and pinyon-juniper woodland
|elevation=1500–2100(–2700)m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Colo.;N.Mex.;Okla.;Tex.;Utah;Wyo.;Mexico in Chihuahua.
|reference=None
|publication title=in Wislizenus,Mem. Tour N. Mexico
|publication year=1848
|special status=
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|genus=Pinus
|species=Pinus edulis
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