Ponderosa pines have long (5 to 8 inch) needles in bundles of three, and egg-shaped cones armed with sharp prickles on the end of each cone scale.
March 28, 2019
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Pondering the ponderosa pine
“The ponderosa is one of the most widely distributed trees in the interior West, extending from southern British Columbia southward in two main branches: down the Cascades and Sierras into Southern California, and through the Rockies into Arizona and New Mexico. It is at home at high elevations.”