DIGGER OR GRAY PINE 



Pinus sabiniana* DOUG. 



BARK Grayish brown, roughly furrowed and ridged. 



LEAVES 3 in a bundle, 8% to 12 inches long, sparse 

 and drooping, grayish green. 



CONE 6 l /2 to 10% inches long, chestnut brown. Scale 

 tips terminating in stout, straight or hooked spurs 

 each about an inch long. When the cones fall they 

 break through near the base like the Coulter and 

 Ponderosa cones, leaving the basal portion attached 

 to the limb ("broken cone" type of pine) . 



Another nut pine, the Gray or Digger 

 Pine, found commonly on the slopes of 

 the Tehachapi Pass and northward, ex- 

 tends in scattered groups southward to 

 the Mt. Pinos region in Ventura County 

 and the northern portions of Los An- 

 geles County. The conspicuous features 

 of the tree are, the relatively scanty 

 bluish-gray foliage, the large heavy 

 cones with their chestnut-brown in- 

 curved scale-tips, the usual elongated 

 V-shaped fork and leaning trunk. Com- 

 paritively early in the life of the tree the 

 main stem-axis ceases its growth and 



'"Joseph Sabine, after whom the tree was named by 

 David Douglas, was Secretary of the London Horticul- 

 tural Society. 



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