Pinus flexilis


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Related to Pinus flexilis: Pinus albicaulis, limber pine
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Noun1.Pinus flexilis - western North American pine with long needles and very flexible limbs and dark-grey furrowed barkPinus flexilis - western North American pine with long needles and very flexible limbs and dark-grey furrowed bark
limber pine
white pine - any of several five-needled pines with white wood and smooth usually light grey bark when young; especially the eastern white pine
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Limber pine (Pinus flexilis 'Vanderwolf's Pyramid').
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(1977:111) characterize the environment as "a subalpine forest community of Picea sp., Pinus flexilis, and Juniperus communis."
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Small limber pine (Pinus flexilis), Amur maple (Acer ginnala), Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) and `Muckle' plum (Prunus x nigrella `Muckle') trees rise from between the rocks.
Gardening on the edge in the Chinook Zone. (2003 Feature Section--"Themes and Extremes")
We took advantage of low decomposition rates in xeric, subalpine forests of the Colorado Front Range, United States, to dendrochronologically reconstruct 300 yr of succession from limber pine (Pinus flexilis James) to Engelmann spruce (Picea engelmanii Parry ex Engelm.) and subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa [Hook.] Nutt.) in two watersheds recovering from the same fire.
Rates and mechanisms of subalpine forest succession along an environmental gradient

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