Common Name: White Pine

Scientific Name: Pinus Strobus

Family: Pinaceae

Fun Facts: 

• White Pines can typically grow up to 50 - 80ft but has been documented growing over 150 ft tall and living up to 200 years

• Tallest Tree in Eastern North America 

• The White Pine needles are soft, velvety, and a blue-green apperance 

• White Pines drop pine cones every three-five years

• its seeds are a source of food for black bears, rabbits, red squirrels and birds

• beavers, snowshoe hares, porcupines feed on the bark of the tree while birds like woodpeckers, mouring doves and chickadees use the tree for nesting

• the white pine's lumber is used for making furniture and wooden articles

• the tree's sap has medicinal qualities of antibacterial and inner bark has ingredients of cough remedies

• it is often used as a Christmas tree