The scientific name "Pinus rigida" means the "pine with the stiff cone scale." You'll see what this means if you try to pull a pine cone off of a branch bare-handed; each scale on the cone is ...

The scientific name “Pinus rigida” means the “pine with the stiff cone scale.” You’ll see what this means if you try to pull a pine cone off of a branch bare-handed; each scale on the ...

Pitch pine trees (Pinus rigida) grow along the eastern North American coast and as far south as northern Georgia. This species thrives in a humid climate and on sandy, shallow soils.

The first fossil evidence of a pine cone sprouting seeds, a rare botanical feat, has been preserved in 40 million-year-old amber.

But after 72 years, Pinus rigida 212-45-C, the state’s champion pitch pine, ... The pitch pine’s rugged form and spiny cones belie a gentle presence. At the arboretum, ...

But the tree that all this candlewooding comes from — the pitch pine or Pinus rigida — is found almost nowhere in western Connecticut. Advertisement Article continues below this ad ...