| Scientific Name: | Pinus nigra |
| Common Name: | Austrian pine, black pine |
| Family Name: | Pinaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Conifer |
| Mature Size: | 22 - 30m x 7 - 10m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Horizontal, Upright |
| Form: | Pyramidal - narrowly |
| Texture: | Medium - coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Group or mass planting, Screening, Specimen plant, Wind break |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Needle-like, Fascicles, Parallel venation, Glabrous, Acicular, Serrulate |
| Flowers: | n/a (male cone), Yellow, Green-yellow, Apr-May |
| Fruit: | Cone (winged seeds), Brown, Sep-Oct, (Persistent) |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Whorled, organized branching, evenly spaced branching; bark of upper trunk gray to dark brown; needles 2 per fascicle, 8-14cm long, flexible, not snapping when sharply bent; buds whitish and bullet shaped; cone stems are centered; seed cones mostly 5-10cm long x 2-4cm wide, ovoid when mature; seeds flattened, obovoid, 6-8mm long, gray, often mottled, with a 15-25mm light brown wing. <a href ='https://www.conifers.org/pi/Pinus_nigra.php' target='_blank'>Conifers.org</a> | |