Description
P. ponderosa is a large coniferous evergreen tree. The bark helps to distinguish it from other species. Mature individuals have cinnamon-red bark with black crevices. Younger trees have black to reddish-brown bark. The tree can often be identified by its characteristic long needles that grow in tufts of two to four (or five) depending on subspecies.
Sources differ on the scent. Some state that it has no distinctive scent, while others state that the bark smells like vanilla if sampled from a furrow of the bark. Sources agree that the Jeffrey Pine is more strongly scented than the Ponderosa Pine.
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