Taxon: Pinus edulis Engelm.

• the 9 historical accession(s) associated with this name.
• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.
• Check AABGA/NAPCC contact person for genus for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

Common names:

• American pinon   (Source: Edible Nuts ) – English
  
• Colorado pinyon   (Source: F CalifJep ) – English
  
• pignolia   (Source: Crops US ) – English
  
• pinyon   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• pinyon pine   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• pino edule   (Source: Mult Glossary Trees ) – Italian
  
• piñón   (Source: F NAmer ) – Spanish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (for Christmas trees fide AH 519)
  
• Human food: seeds   (fide Edible Nuts; F Utah ed2)
  
• Fuels: fuelwood   (fide F Utah ed2)
  

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View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Oklahoma
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Wyoming [s.w.]
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California [s.e.], Utah
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Chihuahua [n.w.?]

• also cultivated

References:

• Cronquist, A. et al. 1972–. Intermountain flora.
• Duke, J. A. 1989. Handbook of Nuts. CRC Press.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Farjon, A. 1984. Pines, drawings and descriptions of the genus Pinus. [= P. cembroides var. edulis (Engelm.) Voss].
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California.
• International Seed Testing Association. 1971. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 2. Trees.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. [with two varieties].
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1978. Important forest trees of the United States.
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541.
• Magness, J. R. et al. 1971. Food and feed crops of the United States. IR Bull. 1.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Perry, J. P., Jr. 1991. The pines of Mexico and Central America.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rosengarten, F. 1984. The book of edible nuts.
• Welsh, S. L. et al. 1993. A Utah flora.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Pinus edulis.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Pinus edulis.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Pinus edulis.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Pinus cembroides var. edulis (Engelm.) Voss
  

Check other web resources for Pinus edulis Engelm.:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Gymnosperm Database of Christopher J. Earle
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Pinus edulis cultivars
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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