CATTON ARBORETUM
Pinus coulteri
Common name:
Widowmaker Pine
Year planted:
2024
Country of origin:
South West of USA
Year introduced:
By Irish botanist Thomas Coulter in 1831
Description:
Height will vary between 20 to 30m depending on the conditions. Generally straight stemmed with sparse branches. The needles can be 20cm long in threes and bunch towards the extremities. Called the widowmaker pine because of its huge ovoid woody cones which can be up to 30cm long and weigh over 2kg. The seeds used to be eaten by native American Indians.
what3words:
goats.slung.beakers
Tree number: 37