sugar pine
noun
plural sugar pines
: a very tall pine (Pinus lambertiana) found from Oregon to Baja California and having needles in clusters of five, cones up to 18 inches (46 centimeters) long, and soft reddish-brown wood
also
: its wood
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The understory of the ponderosa and sugar pine forest was speckled with manzanita, oak trees and dogwoods with yellow leaves, marking the start of fall.
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Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2024
Conifers reproduce intermittently — and this seems to be a banner year for Ponderosa pine, sugar pine and Jefferey pine.
—Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2024
Others, such as Sierra Nevada’s sugar pine, demand 16 weeks.
Between February and May, the seeds wake up from their slumber, germinate and sprout.
—Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2024
Few places have an abundance and diversity of pines like the West Coast: Monterey and bishop, white pines, bristlecone, pinyon and sugar pines are all on the table.
—Michael J. Coren, Washington Post, 23 July 2024
Along 12 acres of the King Fire site, Wright and her team had planted two kinds of pine: ponderosa—which grow up to 200 feet tall with thick, striated bark—and a type of sugar pine resistant to white pine blister rust, a fungus decimating western sugar pines.
—Lauren Markham, Wired, 9 Oct. 2021
In California’s Sierra Nevada mountain range, ponderosa pines, sugar pines and Douglas firs stand tall.
—Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Mar. 2023
The men planted ponderosa and sugar pine, also pieces of the area’s original forest, alongside the sequoias.
—Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Apr. 2022
Rising temperatures, drought, beetles and massive blazes have taken a staggering toll on the state’s most iconic trees, such as sugar pine and giant sequoia.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Aug. 2021
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Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2024
Conifers reproduce intermittently — and this seems to be a banner year for Ponderosa pine, sugar pine and Jefferey pine.
—Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2024
Others, such as Sierra Nevada’s sugar pine, demand 16 weeks.
Between February and May, the seeds wake up from their slumber, germinate and sprout.
—Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2024
Few places have an abundance and diversity of pines like the West Coast: Monterey and bishop, white pines, bristlecone, pinyon and sugar pines are all on the table.
—Michael J. Coren, Washington Post, 23 July 2024
Along 12 acres of the King Fire site, Wright and her team had planted two kinds of pine: ponderosa—which grow up to 200 feet tall with thick, striated bark—and a type of sugar pine resistant to white pine blister rust, a fungus decimating western sugar pines.
—Lauren Markham, Wired, 9 Oct. 2021
In California’s Sierra Nevada mountain range, ponderosa pines, sugar pines and Douglas firs stand tall.
—Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Mar. 2023
The men planted ponderosa and sugar pine, also pieces of the area’s original forest, alongside the sequoias.
—Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Apr. 2022
Rising temperatures, drought, beetles and massive blazes have taken a staggering toll on the state’s most iconic trees, such as sugar pine and giant sequoia.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Aug. 2021
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