This conical to columnar pine has blue-green needles and scaly purplish-brown bark. The red-brown female cones are oblong and about 3 inches long. Height 30 feet; spread 20 feet.
A pine of distinction, the Ponderosa pine, or Western Yellow Pine, grows to 50m ( 164ft ) but will remain somewhat smaller in most gardens. Long needles and an open branch structure make for an elegant silhouette.
One of the most elegant specimen pine trees you are likely to see in temperate gardens. The long drooping needles seem to shimmer in the slightest breeze while the colour seems to change from green to blue to silver and back to green again. The ellipsoid female cones can reach 12 inches long....
Evergreen conifer with flattened needles with silvery white bands beneath and pendent leading shoots. Produces small ovoid female cones that are pendent. Height to 80 feet.
