Pinus halepensis

Aleppo pine is in the pine or Pinaceae family and is native to the eastern Mediterranean region, extending from Morocco, Algeria and Spain north to southern France, Italy, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, and east to Greece, all over Malta and northern Tunisia, with an outlying population (from which it was first described) in Syria, Lebanon, southern Turkey, Jordan, Israel, and Palestinian territories.

It is a small to medium-sized tree reaching up to 25 m tall.

• Needle-like leaves are very slender, in pairs, 6–12 cm long, distinctly yellowish green.
• Cones are narrow conic, 5–12 cm long and 2–3 cm broad at the base when closed, green at first, ripening glossy red-brown when 24 months old. They open slowly over the next few years, a process quickened if they are exposed to heat such as in forest fires. The cones open to 5–8 cm wide and the seeds drop and are dispersed.
• Bark is orange-red, thick, and deeply fissured at the base of the trunk, and thin and flaky in the upper crown.