WESTERN WHITE PINE
pinus monticola

• Western White Pine is also known as Silver Pine
• Western White Pine gets its name from the light colour of the wood
• 'monticola' means "inhabiting mountains"

• Western White Pine is susceptible to white pine blister rust which turns parts of the tree an orangey colour and kills it
• Western White Pine has a short open crown

• Western White Pine is found in drier parts of Vancouver Island, southern mainland coast, wetter areas in the southern Interior
• Western White Pine usually appears in lower elevations
• Western White Pine likes sites rich in nutrients, well drained, gentle slopes

• Western White Pine can grow up to 60 metres in height

• cylindrical on a 2 cm stalk
• 10 to 25 cm long
• when dry the cone scales often bend backwards

• occur in bunches of 5
• 5 to 10 cm long
• slender, straight and soft with finely toothed edges
• bluish -green with a whitish tinge

• young: thin, smooth, greyish-green
• mature: dark with deep vertical grooves, small rectangular scaly plates

• fine grain, uniform texture

• modern - carving, furniture making, pattern making
• traditional - boughs: medicine