| Scientific Name: | Pinus sylvestris cvs. |
| Common Name: | Scots pine (cultivars) |
| Family Name: | Pinaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 2: (-46 to -40 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Conifer |
| Mature Size: | 15 - 22m x 10 - 15m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Dense, Open, Spreading, Upright |
| Form: | Columnar, Irregular, Mounded, Oval - vertical, Pyramidal - narrowly, Pyramidal - widely, Round |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Group or mass planting, Screening, Specimen plant |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Acidic, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Needle-like, Fascicles, Glabrous, Acicular, Serrulate |
| Flowers: | n/a (male cone), Yellow, Apr-May |
| Fruit: | Cone (winged seeds), Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Bark orangish, peeling; branching open; needles 2 per fascicle, flat, most 2.5-5cm long on mature trees (5-9cm long on young trees) x 1.5-2mm wide, glaucous (blue- or grey-green); seed cones conical, lumpy, (2.5-)3-6(-7.5)cm long, green when immature, woody and open when mature, drop at maturity (unlike the persistent cones of shore pine); seeds black, 4-5mm long with a 12-20mm wing. <a href ='https://www.conifers.org/pi/Pinus_sylvestris.php' target='_blank'>Conifers.org</a> | |