Buy Pinus ponderosa

Pinus ponderosa is the famous Ponderosa pine, a large conifer native to BC and western North America. It has a conical form growing form 60-125 feet tall and 25-30 feet wide with a trunk that can be four feet wide. Trees are very long lived, up to 600 years. Its bark is easily identified with scaly, orange-red plates separated by black crevices. On a hot day the bark smells like vanilla. The cones are ovate and purple becoming more brown and spherical as they dry, growing upright but turn upside down at maturity. The long needles are dark yellow-green to blue-green in bundles of three and concentrated in tufts at the branch tips. Enjoys average to medium moisture in well-drained, sandy to gravely loams in full sun but is tolerant of dry conditions. Valued in the landscape for its impressive upright habit and stately form. Use as a specimen, screen or windbreak. Ideal in parks. A larval host for butterflies and moths. Photo: Wikimedia.

A fast growing pine found in several mid-western and western states. Has adapted to to areas from sea level to 10,000 feet. Plant in the open as it is a fast growing tall tree.

The attractive and long-lived Ponderosa Pine is native to the western United States and Canada. Featuring long, dark-green needles bundled in threes and handsome, scaly, plated, deep cinnamon-red bark. This is a very large pine reaching up to 220' in the wild and more commonly 60-125' in cultivation. It is also a very important timber tree and the state tree of Montana. This species was said by John Muir to 'give forth the finest music to the wind', listen and see! S/M-D

One of the most common and tough pines along the western half of the United States, the Ponderosa Pine thrives in a wide range of conditions and produces sturdy branches and long needles in a well-formed conical shape. Ponderosa Pines are one of the most heat and drought tolerant of all Pine trees but are also extremely cold hardy. Their range extends from the hot deserts of Mexico into the freezing mountains of Canada.

A straight trunked and well branched tree, this pine will grow to 50-60' in 50 years. It has beautiful plated bark; glossy, dark green, very long needles and 3-5" light red-brown cones. An attractive and hardy tree.

Once common in parts of the valley, this large needle pine can tolerate winter wet and summer dry with no problem. Large tree to 80 feet.