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SPECIMEN ASPECIMEN BA tree 70 to 150 (up to 200) feet high, with a straight trunk, devoid of branches for agreat height and horizontally spreading branches arching downward and forming aA tree, 60 to 200 feet high. Branching pattern results in pyramid shape. Bark onflat-topped crown. Bark thin, smooth, and grayish at first, becoming thick, deeply andyoung trees is silvery; takes on an ashen hue and becomes deeply furrowed with age.irregularly fissured into long plate-like ridges breaking away into loose purple-brownNeedles affixed directly to branch, spreading almost at right angles in 2 rows; curvedor reddish scales. Needles in bundles of five, 2-3 1/2 inches long, slender but rigid,upward on upper twigs; 3/4 to 2 1/2 inches long, short-pointed or rounded or slightlydark bluish green. Cones oblong-cylindric, 11 to 20 inches long, pendulous, on stalksfrom the ends of the higher branches; cone-scales thick, rounded, ending in bluntnotched at the end; dull green or bluish green. Cones barrel-shaped, 2 to 5 inchespoint, widely spread. Native to western Oregon, California and the mountains of Bajalong; greenish, purple, or yellow; upright on topmost twigs; bracts short, hidden.California.Native on mountain slopes in western Oregon, California, Utah, southern Colorado,Arizona, and the mountains of Baja California.- Full-sizecone17Cones fragile / fallapart