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Pinus rigida (pitch pine)
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Top of pagePreferred Scientific Name
- Pinus rigida Mill.
Preferred Common Name
- pitch pine
International Common Names
- French: pin rigide
Local Common Names
- Germany: Pech- Kiefer; Pechkiefer
- Italy: pino rigido
- Netherlands: doornden; pekpijn
EPPO code
- PIURI (Pinus rigida)
Trade name
- northern pine
Taxonomic Tree
Top of page- Domain: Eukaryota
- Kingdom: Plantae
- Phylum: Spermatophyta
- Subphylum: Gymnospermae
- Class: Pinopsida
- Family: Pinaceae
- Genus: Pinus
- Species: Pinus rigida
List of Pests
Top of pageMajor host of:
Cronartium comandrae (comandra blister rust); Cronartium comptoniae (sweet fern blister rust); Diprion similis (white pine sawfly); Ips calligraphus (six-spined ips); Ips grandicollis (five-spined bark beetle); Mycosphaerella dearnessii (brown spot needle blight); Mycosphaerella gibsonii (needle blight of pine); Pissodes nemorensis (northern pine weevil); Rhyacionia frustrana (Nantucket pine tip moth)Minor host of:
Coleosporium asterum (needle cast: red pine); Cronartium fusiforme (southern fusiform rust); Cronartium quercuum (pine-oak rust); Dendroctonus frontalis (southern pine beetle); Gibberella circinata (pitch canker); Gremmeniella abietina (Brunchorstia disease); Lymantria dispar (gypsy moth); Mycosphaerella pini (Dothistroma blight); Neodiprion sertifer (European pine sawfly); Pineus boerneri (pine woolly aphid); Pissodes strobi (Sitka spruce weevil); Rhyacionia buoliana (European pine shoot moth); Sphaeropsis sapinea (Sphaeropsis blight)Host of (source - data mining):
Dendroctonus terebrans (beetle, black turpentine); Neodiprion pratti (jack pine, sawfly)Uses List
Top of pageEnvironmental
- Agroforestry
- Revegetation
Fuels
- Charcoal
Materials
- Essential oils
- Gum/resin
- Miscellaneous materials
- Wood/timber
Wood Products
Top of pageBoats
Charcoal
Containers
- Crates
- Pallets
Railway sleepers
Roundwood
- Pit props
- Posts
Sawn or hewn building timbers
- Flooring
- For light construction