I can see Scots pine Pinus sylvestris

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In North America, also called Scotch pine, despite having nothing to do with the production nor enjoyment of 🥃︎ that beverage.

In the 🇬🇧 UK, also called ◼︎ yellow pine.  Although do not confuse with sister-species also sometimes called that:

• shortleaf pine  Pinus echinata (in southern 🇺🇸 USA) (where wood marketed as ◼︎ southern yellow pine SYP),
• slash pine  Pinus elliottii          (in southern 🇺🇸 USA) (where wood marketed as ◼︎ southern yellow pine SYP),
• longleaf pine  Pinus palustris  (in southern 🇺🇸 USA) (where wood marketed as ◼︎ southern yellow pine SYP),
• loblolly pine  Pinus taeda        (in southern 🇺🇸 USA) (where wood marketed as ◼︎ southern yellow pine SYP),
• Jeffrey pine  Pinus jeffreyi             (in western 🇺🇸 USA) (where also called ◼︎ western yellow pine),
• ponderosa pine  Pinus ponderosa (in western 🇺🇸 USA) (where also called ◼︎ western yellow pine),
• ◼︎ eastern white pine  Pinus strobus       (in 🇬🇧 UK), and
• Scots pine  Pinus sylvestris (this plant!) (in 🇬🇧 UK).

🏛❀ National flower of Scotland (along with ♐︎ spear thistle  Cirsium vulgare ).

Part of 🌲︎ pine  genus Pinus in 🌲︎ cedar / fir / hemlock / larch / pine / spruce  family Pinaceae in 🌲︎ conifer  order Pinales.

Native throughout 🇳🇴 🇸🇪 🇫🇮 Scandinavia, and much of 🇪🇺 Europe, 🇷🇺 Russia and Siberia.

🗺 Map (USA-48 + nearby Canada). 🗺 Map (eastern 🇺🇸 USA).

Invasive > 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Canada+USA Invasive > report it! Invasive > 🇺🇸 USA Invasive > Michigan

In these areas (particularly 🇨🇦 Canada AB BC SK, and 🇺🇸 USA AZ CA CO ID MO MT NV NM OR SD UT WA WI WY):

• do not move pine logs, stumps, branches, firewood nor untreated lumber

due to possible infestation by the insect mountain pine beetle (MPB)  Dendroctonus ponderosae, which carries various species of 🍄︎ fungus / mushroom  kingdom Fungi.

The 💎︎ mineral olivine is harder than most other minerals.  Thus compared to other areas, 🗻︎ mountain ridges made of olivine are slower to break down, have thinner soils, and are often dryer.  This tree, being drought-resistant, is thus one of few trees to thrive on olivine rock.  Which results in the 💎︎🌲︎ olivine pine forests around certain fjords in 🇳🇴 Norway.

Uses by native peoples
(Ethnobotany database)   On No-Planting List by Seneca Nation of Indians SNI.  (page 64)

Some sources say one of the ten ♐︎ Schöningen spears was made from the 🪵 wood of this tree.

The other nine spears were made of 🇳🇴 Norway spruce  Picea abies.

This plant is known to be a host for (in areas where invasive) 🐝︎ spotted lanternfly (SLF)  Lycorma delicatula.

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