Pinus sylvestris

Pinaceae Pinus sylvestris L.

Etymology
Pinus refers to the Latin name for pines.
sylvestris refers to ‘from the forest’; indicating its habitat.

Colloquial Name
Scots pine

Subordinate Taxa
There exist 3 subordinate taxa for Pinus sylvestris:

Distribution

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TDWG Codes
1, 10, FIN, GRB, NOR, SWE, 11, AUT, AUT-AU, AUT-LI, BGM, BGM-BE, BGM-LU, CZE, CZE-CZ, CZE-SL, GER, HUN, POL, SWI, 12, FRA, FRA-FR, POR, SPA, SPA-AN, SPA-SP, 13, ALB, BUL, GRC, ITA, ITA-IT, ITA-SM, ROM, TUE, YUG, YUG-BH, YUG-CR, YUG-KO, YUG-MA, YUG-MN, YUG-SE, YUG-SL, 14, BLR, BLT, BLT-ES, BLT-KA, BLT-LA, BLT-LI, KRY, RUC, RUE, RUN, RUS, RUW, UKR, UKR-MO, UKR-UK, 3, 30, ALT, BRY, CTA, IRK, KRA, TVA, WSB, YAK, 31, AMU, KHA, PRM, 32, KAZ, 33, TCS, TCS-AB, TCS-GR, 34, TUR, 36, CHI, CHI-NM, CHM, CHM-HJ, CHM-JL, 37, MON

Habitat
The natural habitats for Pinus sylvestris are temperate forests, temperate shrublands. The natural elevation is unknown. There are no conifers associated with Pinus sylvestris that are known of.

USDA Hardiness zone – 2
Pinus sylvestris is hardy to USDA Zone 2 (Bannister & Neuner, 2001), meaning its frost tolerance lies somewhere in the range of -45.6C (-50F) to -40C (-40F).

Species Continuity
The population trend for Pinus sylvestris is stable. There are no known threats for Pinus sylvestris.

IUCN Category – LC
According to the IUCN Red List, Pinus sylvestris has been assigned the status of LC(Least Concern). This means that according to the Red List criteria, this species is not qualified as threatened.

Superordinate Taxa
The nearest superordinate taxon for Pinus sylvestris is Subsect. Pinus. The coordinate taxa for Pinus sylvestris are therefore:

Pinus sylvestris is further placed under Pinoideae. Pinus sylvestris is also placed under Pinaceae.

Cultivars
‘Abergeldie Castle’ , ‘Alba’ , ‘Albospicata’ , ‘Albyns’, ‘Albyn’s Prostrate’ , ‘Alderly Edge’, ‘Andorra’ , ‘Argentea’ , ‘Argentea Compacta’, ‘Arrowhead’ , ‘Aurea’, ‘Aurea Nisbet’, ‘Aureopicta’ , ‘Avondene’ , ‘Bakony’ , ‘Balenice’ , ‘Barabits Blue’, ‘Barrie Bergman’ , ‘Beacon Hill’, ‘Bedgebury Gold’ , ‘Bedgebury WB No. 17’, ‘Beissneriana’ , ‘Bennett Compact’ , ‘Bennett Mini-leaf’, ‘Bennett Short-leaf’ , ‘Bergman’ , ‘Beuvronensis’ , ‘Bexel WB Seedling’, ‘Black Money’, ‘Blatenka’ , ‘Blue Sky’ , ‘Boersma’, ‘Bonna’ , ‘Brentmoor Blonde’, ‘Brevifolia’ , ‘Buchanan Gold’ , ‘Buchanan’s Gold’ , ‘Bujotii’, ‘Burghfield’, ‘Calle’, ‘Candlelight’, ‘Chantry Blue’ , ‘Clumber Blue’ , ‘Clumber Hump’ , ‘Columnaris’ , ‘Columnaris Compacta’ , ‘Compressa’ , ‘Corley’, ‘Corley’s Dwarf’, ‘Cutty Sark’ , ‘Dansai’ , ‘Denny Boy’ , ‘Dereham’, ‘Doone Valley’ , ‘Drath’ , ‘Edwin Hillier’ , ‘Fastigiata’, ‘Fastigiata Drath’ , ‘Feuchtner’, ‘Fjell Tepich’, ‘French Blue’ , ‘Frensham’ , ‘Fritsche’, ‘Gaker’s Blue’ , ‘Genevensis’, ‘Genolier’ , ‘Girard’s Dwarf’, ‘Glauca Compacta’ , ‘Glauca Drath’ , ‘Glauca Globosa’ , ‘Glauca Nana’, ‘Globosa’ , ‘Globosa Nana’ , ‘Globosa Viridis’ , ‘Gold Coin’, ‘Gold Medal’, ‘Grand Rapids’ , ‘Green Flare’ , ‘Greg’s Variegated’, ‘Guadarama’, ‘Gwydyr Castle’, ‘Hale’s Prostrate’, ‘Heit’s Pygmy’ , ‘Helen Bergman’ , ‘Helga’, ‘Helms’, ‘Helsey Dwarf’ , ‘Hensley’s Dwarf’, ‘Hersley Dwarf’, ‘Hesley Hall’, ‘Hexenbesen Diesteldorf’, ‘Hexguld’, ‘Hibernia’ , ‘Hillside Creeper’ , ‘Horndal’ , ‘Hoste Dwarf’ , ‘Humble Pie’, ‘Hurn Forest No. 2’ , ‘Iceni’ , ‘Inops’ , ‘Inverleith’ , ‘Irchester Park’, ‘Istvandi’ , ‘Jade’ , ‘Jakutsk’, ‘Janssen Witch’ , ‘Jeremy’ , ‘John Boy’ , ‘Juto’ , ‘Kaltha Norwegen’, ‘Kámon Blue’ , ‘KBN Gold Sport’, ‘Kelpie’, ‘Kenwith’ , ‘Kluis Pyramid’, ‘Ksawerow’ , ‘Kurznadelig’, ‘Lakeside Dwarf’ , ‘Lapponica’ , ‘Larchwood’, ‘Little Ann’ , ‘Little Brolly’ , ‘Little Orphan’, ‘Lodge Hill’, ‘Longmoor’, ‘Martham’, ‘Marshall Broom’, ‘Meffen Gold’ , ‘Miba’, ‘Mini Globe’, ‘Mitsch Weeping’, ‘Monophylla’ , ‘Moseri’ , ‘Mount Vernon Blue’ , ‘Munches Blue’ , ‘Nana’, ‘Nana Glauca’, ‘Nisbet’s Aurea’ , ‘Nisbet’s Gem’ , ‘Nisbet’s Gold’ , ‘Nivea’ , ‘Norge’ , ‘Nymans’ , ‘Oberbozen’ , ‘Onderstam’ , ‘Oppdal’, ‘Pasfield’ , ‘Pendula’ , ‘Perkeo’, ‘Peter Hearne’ , ‘Peve Miba’, ‘Pierson’s Ridge’ , ‘Pine Glen’ , ‘Piskowitz’, ‘Pixie’ , ‘Prairie Dwarf WB’ , ‘Prostrata’, ‘Pulham’ , ‘Pumila’, ‘Pygmaea’ , ‘Pyramidalis Compacta’ , ‘Reedham’ , ‘Repens’ , ‘Riverside Gem’ , ‘Roger Doger’ , ‘Ronald Corley’, ‘Rowe’s Broom’, ‘Rustic’ , ‘Sandringham’ , ‘Saxatilis’ , ‘Sayville’, ‘Scotts Dwarf’ , ‘Scrubby’ , ‘Sé’, ‘Sei’ , ‘Sentinel’ , ‘Sherburn Gap’ , ‘Sherwood’ , ‘Skiabloba’ , ‘Skjak I’, ‘Skjak II’ , ‘Skogbygdi’ , ‘Slim Jim’ , ‘Slimkin’ , ‘Sosnowski’, ‘Spaan’s Slow Column’, ‘Spanish’, ‘Spiralis’, ‘St George’, ‘Straver’, ‘Supergold’ , ‘Tabuliformis’, ‘Tage’, ‘Tanya’ , ‘Tilhead’ , ‘Top Hat’ , ‘Tortuosa’, ‘Treasure’, ‘Trefrew Quarry’, ‘Trefrid’, ‘Trenton Weeper’ , ‘Trollguld’, ‘Trooper’ , ‘Twiggy’ , ‘Tulsfelder Zwerg’ , ‘Umbraculifera’, ‘Umbrella’ , ‘Vargguld’ , ‘Variegata’ , ‘Variegated Witches’ Broom’, ‘Vera Hayward’, ‘Vikancice’, ‘Virgata’ , ‘Viridis Compacta’ , ‘Wartham’ , ‘Watereri’, ‘Westonbirt’, ‘Wintergold’, WOLF GOLD , ‘Xavery’ , ‘Žatec’