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 - fine
Landscape Uses: Group or mass planting, Screening, Specimen plant, Wind break
Exposure: Full sun
Soil or Media: Well-drained
Leaves: Needle-like, Fascicles, Soft flexible, 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>