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Scots Pine

Conifers and Other Gymnosperms

Pinus sylvestris, commonly known as the Scots pine in English and the Scotch pine in the United States, is a species of tree in the pine family native to Eurasia, also occasionally called the Baltic pine or European red pine. It can readily be identified by its combination of fairly short, blue-green needles and distinctive orange-red bark.

Facts
Classification
Diet
Photosynthetic Autotroph 1
System (Realm)
Terrestrial 2
Living or Extinct
Yes 1
Derived from this species' own Conservation Status: this atlas's IUCN category list has no Extinct value, so a set conservation-status is itself evidence of living status (w-bfill-g5-0924 browse backfill).
Identification
Distinguishing Appearance
Thick, flaky, orange-red bark when young, scaly and gray-brown in maturity 1
Scientific Name
Pinus sylvestris 1
Conservation Status
Least Concern 1
Connections

Child Taxon Of

Pinopsida, Taxa
Source Wikidata: Scots Pine
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  • Also in Geography Atlas: Austria, found in there.
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Belarus, found in there.
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Belgium, found in there.
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Bulgaria, found in there.
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  • Also in Geography Atlas: France, found in there.
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Germany, found in there.
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  • Also in Geography Atlas: Hungary, found in there.
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Iceland, found in there.
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Ireland, found in there.
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Italy, found in there.
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Kazakhstan, found in there.
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Manchuria, found in there.
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Mongolia, found in there.
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Netherlands, found in there.
  • Also in Geography Atlas: North America, found in there.
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Norway, found in there.
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Poland, found in there.
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Portugal, found in there.
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Romania, found in there.
  • Also in Geography Atlas: South Asia, found in there.
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Spain, found in there.
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Sweden, found in there.
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Switzerland, found in there.
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Ukraine, found in there.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Scots pine
  • Lead paragraph
    Pinus sylvestris is a species of conifer, a pine, in the family Pinaceae.
  • Infobox, conservation status
    Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
  • Description
    The bark is thick, flaky and orange-red when young to scaly and gray-brown in maturity, sometimes retaining the former on the upper portion.
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2. GBIF Species API
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Wikidata: Scots Pine
  • Wikidata Q133128, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
  • Child Taxon Of: Pinopsida, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chain
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