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Pinus strobiformis, photographed by an iNaturalist contributor
(c) Eric Hough, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · CC BY-NC
#1064 most planted

Pinus strobiformis

Chihuahua white pine · also Border limber pine, Mexican white pine, Border white pine

ConiferEvergreen
147
trees mapped
0.00%
of all named trees
3
cities
3.0 in
median trunk (8 cm, 146 measured)

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Pinus strobiformis, also known as Chihuahua white pine, is a medium-sized white pine tree endemic to western Mexico in the Sierra Madre Occidental mountain range. It is typically a high-elevation pine growing mixed with other conifers in montane forest.

Where it grows

Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.

  1. Denver · United States
    139—3.0 in
  2. New York City · United States
    6—19 in
  3. Boston · United States
    2—36 in

No city in this list records planting dates for this species, so age is blank throughout.

Traits

Form
Conifer
Foliage
Evergreen

Trunk diameters across every city: median 3.0 in, mean 8.2 in, 90th percentile 21 in. Measured at breast height, as published by each inventory.

Native range

Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.

Tropical & Subtropical Coniferous Forests

  • Sierra Madre Occidental pine-oak forests

Other Pinus in the catalogue

51 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.

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