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Pinus banksiana (jack pine)
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Top of pagePreferred Scientific Name
- Pinus banksiana Lamb.
Preferred Common Name
- jack pine
Other Scientific Names
- Pinus divaricata (Aiton) Sudw.
- Pinus sylvestris var. divaricata Aiton
International Common Names
- English: scrub pine
- Spanish: pino de Banks; pino jack
- French: pin de Banks
Local Common Names
- North America: Hudson Bay pine
- Canada: Banksian pine; black pine; gray pine; scrub pine
- Germany: Banks Kiefer; Strauch- Kiefer
- Italy: pino di Banks
- Netherlands: struikden; struikpijn
- USA: Banksian pine; black pine; gray pine; scrub pine
EPPO code
- PIUBN (Pinus banksiana)
Trade name
- eastern woods
- northern pine
Taxonomic Tree
Top of page- Domain: Eukaryota
- Kingdom: Plantae
- Phylum: Spermatophyta
- Subphylum: Gymnospermae
- Class: Pinopsida
- Family: Pinaceae
- Genus: Pinus
- Species: Pinus banksiana
List of Pests
Top of pageMajor host of:
Arceuthobium americanum (lodgepole pine dwarf mistletoe); Armillaria ostoyae (armillaria root rot); Bursaphelenchus xylophilus (pine wilt nematode); Choristoneura pinus pinus (jack-pine budworm); Cronartium coleosporioides (pine cow wheat rust); Cronartium comandrae (comandra blister rust); Cronartium comptoniae (sweet fern blister rust); Cronartium quercuum (pine-oak rust); Diprion similis (white pine sawfly); Endocronartium harknessii (western gall rust); Ips calligraphus (six-spined ips); Ips grandicollis (five-spined bark beetle); Ips pini (pine engraver); Monochamus carolinensis (pine sawyer); Monochamus mutator (spotted pine sawyer); Mycosphaerella dearnessii (brown spot needle blight); Neodiprion sertifer (European pine sawfly); Pissodes nemorensis (northern pine weevil); Pissodes strobi (Sitka spruce weevil); Pissodes terminalis (lodgepole pine terminal weevil); Sirex noctilio (woodwasp); Sirococcus conigenus (sirococcus blight of conifers); Sphaeropsis sapinea (Sphaeropsis blight)Minor host of:
Arceuthobium pusillum (eastern dwarf mistletoe); Atropellis piniphila (twig blight of pine); Candidatus Phytoplasma pini (pine witches'-broom phytoplasma); Choristoneura fumiferana (spruce budworm); Coleosporium asterum (needle cast: red pine); Conyza canadensis (Canadian fleabane); Gremmeniella abietina (Brunchorstia disease); Heterobasidion annosum; Lambdina fiscellaria (eastern hemlock looper); Leptographium procerum (white pine root decline); Lymantria monacha (nun moth); Monochamus alternatus (Japanese pine sawyer); Monochamus saltuarius (Japanese pine sawyer); Mycosphaerella pini (Dothistroma blight); Panolis flammea (pine beauty moth); Pissodes castaneus (small banded pine weevil); Pissodes validirostris (pine cone weevil); Pityogenes chalcographus (sixtoothed spruce bark beetls); Pristiphora erichsonii (larch sawfly)Wild host of:
Fomitopsis pinicola (brown crumbly rot)Associated with (not a host):
Bacillus subtilisHost of (source - data mining):
Asynapta hopkinsi (cone resin midge); Conophthorus resinosae (red pine cone beetle); Dioryctria disclusa (webbing coneworm); Diprion pini (common pine sawfly); Eucosma gloriola (eastern pine shoot borer); Eucosma monitorana (red pine cone borer); Ips perroti; Monochamus scutellatus (white-spotted sawyer); Neodiprion pratti (jack pine, sawfly); Ophiostoma piceaperdum (girdling canker: pine); Petrova albicapitana (northern pitch twig moth); Rhyacionia adana; Rhyacionia busckana (red pine shoot borer); Rhyacionia granti (jack pine shoot borer); Tetyra bipunctata (shieldbacked pine seed bug)Uses List
Top of pageEnvironmental
- Agroforestry
- Erosion control or dune stabilization
Fuels
- Fuelwood
General
- Ornamental
Materials
- Fibre
- Wood/timber
Medicinal, pharmaceutical
- Traditional/folklore
Wood Products
Top of pageContainers
- Boxes
- Crates
- Pallets
- Vats
Pulp
- Short-fibre pulp
Roundwood
- Building poles
- Posts
- Roundwood structures
Sawn or hewn building timbers
- Carpentry/joinery (exterior/interior)
- Flooring
- For light construction
Wood-based materials
- Particleboard