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Taxon: Pinus strobus L.

Genus: Pinus subgenus: Strobus section: Quinquefoliae subsection: Strobus
Family: Pinaceae.
Nomen number: 28551
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 2:1001. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 13-May-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 30-Sep-2008
Species priority site is: National Arboretum (NA).

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.
Check AABGA/NAPCC contact person for genus for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

Common names:

  • eastern white pine   (Source: Trees US ) – English
  • Weymouth pine   (Source: F BritStace ) – English
  • white pine   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  • bei mei qiao song   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  • pin blanc   (Source: HerbSpices ) – French
  • pin de Lord Weymouth   (Source: HerbSpices ) – French
  • pin Weymouth   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – French
  • Strobe   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
  • Weymouthskiefer   (Source: HerbSpices ) – German
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Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

      Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)
      Cultivated:
  • cultivated elsewhere

References:

  • Boutelje, J. B. 1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature. (Ency WTimber)
  • Craker, L. E. & J. E. Simon, eds. 1986–1987. Herbs, spices, and medicinal plants, 2 vols. (HerbSpices)
  • Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  • Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. (Zander ed17)
  • FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
  • Farjon, A. & B. T. Styles. 1997. Pinus (Pinaceae). In: Organization for Flora Neotropica, ed., Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 75:215. [var. chiapensis].
  • Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2)
  • Krüssmann, G. 1985. Manual of cultivated conifers (English translation of Die Nadelgeholze, ed. 2. 1983). (KrussmannC)
  • Little, E. L., Jr. 1978. Important forest trees of the United States. (AH 519)
  • Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541. (Trees US)
  • McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
  • Silba, J. 1986. Encyclopaedia Coniferae. Phytologia Mem. 8:163.
  • Stace, C. 1995. New flora of the British Isles. (F BritStace)
  • Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur) [introduced].
  • Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)
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Synonyms:


Check other databases for Pinus strobus L.:

  • Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
  • Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
  • Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
  • PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
  • 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 for Pinus strobus 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.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

  • Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
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  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google 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.

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Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?28551 (09 February 2010)

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