Pinus sylvestris

Scots pine is in the pine or Pinaceae family and is native to Eurasia, from western Europe and Scandinavia through eastern Siberia, being the only pine native to northern Europe. It grows up to about 35 m tall. It is the national tree of Scotland.

• Needles are in bundles of 2, up to 7 cm long twisted. Colour is blue-green, with distinct stomatal bands; leaf sheath grey, 5–8 mm, slowly eroding to 3–4 mm by leaf senescence.
• Species is monoecious; male pollen cones are cylindrical, yellow, in large clusters along twigs; new females oval, yellow-green to purple.
• Mature seed cones are ovoid, up to 6 cm long, yellow-brown, slightly stocked, scales armed with blunt spines.
• Bark is orange to orange-brown, and when mature, is irregular gray, with red-brown ridges and furrows.