Maritime pine
size:
trunk: up to 40 meters, 25 meters in dune woods
trunk diameter: 1.2 meters
needles: 15-25 centimeters
cones: conic in shape, 10-20 centimeters long
color:
bark: orange-red to pale gray
needles: blue-green to yellow-green
use:
resin is used as a basis for terpentine
- Dut: Zeeden
- Lat: Pinus pinaster
- Eng: Maritime Pine
- Fre: Pin maritime
- Ger: Strand-Kiefer
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Maritime pine
Those lovely large pine cones you find in the woods come from the maritime pine. The cones take 2 years to ripen. It takes another few years to open and release its seeds. A forest fire can force them to open more quickly. Besides the large cones, maritime pines are easy to recognize among the other pine species growing on the Wadden Islands by their long needles. Despite the name, maritime pines are not native to the Dutch coast.
- Wind effects
- Maritime pines, foto fitis, sytske dijksen
Based upon the name, you would expect that the pine forests along the coasts consisted primarily of maritime pines. However, the forests were originally planted for timber production and maritime pine does not grow very tall and straight when planted in windy regions. Black pine, on the contrary, fares better and is therefore the dominant pine tree in these areas. Nevertheless, maritime pines have been planted sporadically along the coast and on the Wadden Islands.
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