Pinus resinosa

Red pine is in the pine or Pinaceae family and occurs from Newfoundland west to southeastern Manitoba, and south to below the Great Lakes, with several smaller, disconnected populations in the Appalachian Mountains and in West Virginia. It grows up to 35 m tall with a conical crown.

• Needles are dark yellow-green, in fascicles of two, up to 14 cm long, and brittle, snapping cleanly when bent. Branches are in annual whorls.
• Species is monoecious; male pollen cones are oval, light red, in large clusters at branch tips; young female cones are round, short, reddish brown.
• Seed cones mature in 2 years and are near round, up to 6 cm long, 2.5 cm broad, colour purple before maturity, ripening to chestnut brown; scales are not armed (are without a prickle). Cones are almost sessile (stockless).
• Bark on older trees has plates with scaly surfaces and a reddish tinge.