ONE-LEAF PINYON 



Pinus monophylla TORR & FREM. 



BARK Dark brown, reddish brown or almost black, 

 finely and irregularly fissured, nearly an inch 

 thick. 



LEAVES Single (or very occasionally double), 1^4 to 

 2}4 inches long, stiff, curved upward and sharp- 

 pointed. 



CONE Almost globular, chocolate brown, l 1 /^ to 2 l /2 

 inches long, made up of few thick scales with 

 blunt summits and bearing a minute prickle, ex- 

 ceedingly resinous; seeds wingless. 



This humble dweller of the desert 

 mountain slopes is, as a furnisher of 

 food, one of the most valuable of the 

 pines. It is the Indians' own tree, and 

 the thousands of acres of Pinyon forests 

 are his wild orchard from which for 

 ages he has depended for a considerable 

 portion of the winter's food supply. 

 Some of the oldest and best defined 

 trails leading out of the deserts and into 

 the mountains were those which led to 

 the forests of Pinyons. No doubt it was 

 a beautiful sight to watch the bands of 

 gaily dressed Indians as they made their 

 way at autumn time over these ancient 

 trails and stopped at night at the camps 



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