Swiss stone pine

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Swiss stone pine - large five-needled European pine; yields cembra nuts and a resinous exudate

arolla pine, cembra nut tree, Pinus cembra, Swiss pine

pine, pine tree, true pine - a coniferous tree

cedar nut, cembra nut - the seed of the Swiss pine

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Here is one of the earliest of the artist's own, an installation called The New York Calming Room (2007), fashioned out of Swiss stone pine that is famed for its soothing aroma.

Homes from home: the Swiss sculptor Not Vital talks to Apollo about his own work, the art he collects, and how he is displaying both in his native Engadine Valley

A similar mutualism occurs between the Eurasian Nutcracker (Nucifraga caryocatactes) and several pines, including the Swiss stone pine (Pinus cembra) (Tomback and Linhart [1990] and references therein).

Cost of mutualism: competition, tree morphology, and pollen production in limber pine clusters

To date, the bird-dispersed species that have been examined and found to have multi-genet tree clusters include: whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) (Linhart and Tomback, 1985; Furnier et al., 1987); Swiss stone pine (P.