Pinus brutia

Turkish pine, or Calabrian pine is in the pine or Pinaceae family and is native to the eastern Mediterranean region, including Turkey, southeastern Bulgaria, the East Aegean Islands of Aegean Sea, Crete, the Crimea, Iran, Georgia, Azerbaijan, northern Iraq, western Syria, Israel, north-west Jordan, Lebanon, and Cyprus. It is a medium-sized tree reaching up to 35 m tall.

• Needle-like leaves are in pairs, slender, mostly 10–16 cm long, bright green to slightly yellowish green.
• The cones are stout, heavy and hard, 6–11 cm long and 4–5 cm broad at the base when closed, green at first, ripening glossy red-brown when 24 months old. They open slowly over the next year or two to release the seeds, opening to 5–8 cm broad. The seeds are 7–8 mm long, with a 15–20 mm wing, and are mainly wind-dispersed.
• The bark is orange-red, thick and deeply fissured at the base of the trunk, and thin and flaky in the upper crown.