Plant Form: Tall tree with rounded crown and large upper branches
Height: To 125 ft in the deserts; to 220 feet elsewhere.
Trunk: To 4 ft diameter in the deserts; to 14 feet elsewhere.
Bark: Smooth with resin blisters, aging to dark, thick, and deeply furrowed.
Branches: Long and spreading; lower branches drooping towards ground.
Needles: Dark blue green; protrude in all directions from the branchlet; narrow, flat, soft; rounded at tip; to about 1.5-inches long. Two narrow white stripes on underside of leaf. |