Pinus lambertiana

Sugar pine is in the pine or Pinaceae family and is native to mountains of the Pacific coast of North America, from Oregon through California to Baja California. It is the tallest of all the pines, generally growing up to 60 m tall (occasionally even 80m).

The species has been severely affected by the white pine blister rust (Cronartium ribicola).

• Crown is narrowly conic, becoming rounded or flat-topped with age; branches are nearly horizontal and are in whorls.
• It is a 5-needle pine, in the white pine sub-genus; needles are 5–11 cm long, sharp, straight with a slight twist, with a deciduous sheath.
• Species is monoecious; pistillate (female) seed cones are the longest of all pines, 25–50 cm long, and mature in 2 years; cones drop after winter shedding of seeds; staminate (male) cones are small, yellow, up to 15 mm long.
• Bark is cinnamon to grey brown and deeply furrowed, scaly, with long plates.