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Earth has over 100 pine species, and ten important ones grow west of
Anderson Hall. Foresters relish Monterey Pine's fast growth, attained
even on poor soils. Though native only in a small part of California,
this bright green pine is planted in vast portions of the planet for
wood. The tree is unlike most pines in bearing 3-5 inch needles in
trios, and in its distinctive cones: roughly baseball-sized,
woody-textured, knobby, staying closed and clinging tightly to the
tree for decades. Fire forces the cones to release their seeds.
Severe winters turn Monterey pines brown, but do not usually kill them.
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![[Trunk of Monterey Pine]](/home/treetour/graphics/03mpine.jpg)
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