Pinus monophylla


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Noun1.Pinus monophylla - pinon of southwestern United States having solitary needles and often many stemsPinus monophylla - pinon of southwestern United States having solitary needles and often many stems; important as a nut pine
single-leaf, single-leaf pine, single-leaf pinyon
nut pine - any of several pinons bearing edible nutlike seeds
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However the seeds of the pinyon pines (Pinus edulis and Pinus monophylla) which produce in the south-western US and in northern Mexico are known as pinon nuts.
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The Single Leaf Pinyon, Pinus monophylla, is the world's only one-needled pine tree and can live for a thousand years.
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Among the six species that grow in the American Southwest, two--the single-leaf pi-on (Pinus monophylla) and the Colorado pi-on, or true pi-on (Pinus edulis)--predominate.
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However, recent research has shown that several species of rodents - including deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus), pinyon mice (Peromyscus truei), Great Basin pocket mice (Perognathus parvus), and Panamint kangaroo rats (Dipodomys panamintinus) - scatter-hoard large quantities of Pinus monophylla seeds (Vander Wall, 1997).
Seed viability of newly harvested seeds of Pinus monophylla ranged from 56% to 90% for different populations harvested on the west side of the Great Basin (Gilleard, 1985).
Seed and seedling ecology of pinon and juniper species in the pygmy woodlands of western North America
In contrast, ratios of seedlings to adults differed significantly between sites for Pinus monophylla (G = 363.9, df = 12, P [less than] 0.0001).
Pinus monophylla experienced much higher seed predation and lower germination rates on unaltered andesite than on altered andesite (Table 4).
Competition and facilitation: contrasting effects of Artemisia tridentata on desert vs. montane pines
NEVADA: singleleaf pinyon pine (Pinus monophylla), designated in 1953.
A geography of state trees

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