Plant Form: Large, rounded shrub to subtree.
Height: 10 to 30(40) feet.
Trunk: Conspicuously fluted or ridged; branching underground; multiple trunks emerge from the ground.
Bark: Reddish-brown, aging to gray.
Branches: Branchlets 3-dimensional (not flattened).
Needles: Scale-like, pitted on the back (gland), denticulate at the margins, pointed. Scales in whorls of 3, 6-ranked.
Cones: Berry, bluish aging to reddish-brown; 1/4-to-1/2-inch diameter, sweet (not resinous), dull reddish brown; 1-3 seeds. |