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	Pine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pines are coniferous trees of the genus Pinus, in the family Pinaceae.
		Pines are mostly monoecious, having the male and female cones on the same tree, though a few species are sub-dioecious with individuals predominantly, but not wholly, single-sex.
		Pines are commercially among the most important of species used for timber in temperate and tropical regions of the world.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pine (1335 words)

	Aleppo Pine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Aleppo Pine (Pinus halepensis) is a pine native to the Mediterranean region.
		The range extends from Morocco and Spain north to southern France, Italy and Croatia, and east to Greece and northern Libya, with an outlying population (from which it was first described) in Syria (including Aleppo), Jordan and Israel.
		Aleppo Pine is closely related to Turkish Pine, Canary Island Pine and Maritime Pine, which all share many features with it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aleppo_Pine (351 words)

	Aleppo Pine -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Aleppo Pine (Pinus halepensis) is a (A coniferous tree) pine native to the (The largest inland sea; between Europe and Africa and Asia) Mediterranean region.
		Aleppo Pine is closely related to (additional info and facts about Turkish Pine) Turkish Pine, (additional info and facts about Canary Island Pine) Canary Island Pine and (additional info and facts about Maritime Pine) Maritime Pine, which all share many features with it.
		It is widely planted for timber in its native area, being one of the most important trees in (The science of planting and caring for forests and the management of growing timber) forestry in Algeria and Morocco.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/al/aleppo_pine.htm (312 words)

	botany/pinus
		Pine trees are also tapped in several parts of the world, such as western France, the southeastern U.S., and the Himalayas, for the purpose of their resin, which when distilled provides turpentine and resin.
		Pines intended to grow in the forest should be set in their positions when quite small, from 9 to 12 inches high.
		Pines usually form straggly roots and it's difficult to dig them up with a good soil ball, but this is very important to successful transplanting of all but very small plants.
	www.botany.com /pinus.html (1351 words)

	Pine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Pine is any of a large group of evergreen trees that have needlelike leaves and bear cones.
		The Virginia pine is found in the southern Appalachian Mountains and the rolling hills of the Piedmont Region.
		The ponderosa pine is common throughout the Rocky Mountains and the eastern side of the Cascades, and in the Southwestern United States.
	www2.worldbook.com /features/cybercamp/html/walkpine.html (1452 words)

	My Bonsai - natural bonsai aleppo pine 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Alodged, wind-birched, distinct specimen of the Aleppo pine on the rocky coast of island of Mljet.
		Pines (Pinus L.) are markedly forest plants spread out in the forests of the northern hemisphere, parts of the Malayan archipelago and partly in the tropics.
		There are several methods and techniques of cultivation of the bonsai pine, the best and the hardest of them being the finding of the oldest dwarfish examplar possible in nature, because human life is too short to cultivate such a pine from seed.
	www.my-bonsai.com /en/aleppo.1.htm (288 words)

	Pine Tree
		The stems of most Pine trees (or Conifers) branch freely in apparent whorls, having a "racemose" arrangement--so that, especially when the trees are young, they have one main "leader" or primary shoot, which elongates rapidly, and gives the whole tree the outline of an attenuated cone.
		The Stone Pine trees may perhaps be a native of China, where it is plentiful, as in the south of Europe it is seldom seen in situations far removed from human habitations.
		Where this Pine occurs in large groves of fine trees, such as those which were formerly one of the great beauties of the ancient city of Ravenna, the rustling and sighing of the boughs in the wind has often arrested the attention of the poet.
	www.2020site.org /trees/pine.html (1571 words)

	My Bonsai - natural bonsai aleppo pine 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The best and the most interesting examplars of bonsai pines, cultivated by the famous masters are precisely those that are found and extracted from nature, where they have taken the most fantastic forms, under the influence of weather and cheap and rocky ground.
		For the extraction of such a pine several steps are required in order to encourage it to develop side roots near the surface, and only then extracting it by cutting the main root.
		In the surroundings of Split I found an interesting example of the Aleppo pine, 60cm high, with the trunk thickness of around 10cm, probably between 30 and 40 years of age.
	www.my-bonsai.com /en/aleppo.2.htm (371 words)

	Aleppo on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Aleppo is a transportation hub; it has an international airport and is connected by rail with Damascus and the Mediterranean port of Latakia, as well as with Turkey and Iraq.
		The Univ. of Aleppo (1960), Aleppo Institute of Music (1955), and Muslim theological schools are in the city.
		Mario Aleppo, center in suite, talks with John Misenheimer as Aleppo is welcomed by drums and pipers to deliver the wallet of Gen. William Lee Davidson to the Catawba Valley Scottish Society.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/A/Aleppo.asp (817 words)

	Aleppo Pine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		One, Pinus pinea, the stone pine or umbrella pine (in allusion to its umbrella-like appearance when mature), was once grown on a large scale for its seeds which are an important ingredient in Middle East foods.
		In Nehemiah 8:15 and Isaiah 41:19 the Aleppo pine brutia pine is probably meant.
		It is often difficult to say with certainty which pine is intended in the scriptures as the same word can be used for other evergreen trees such as the cypress and the fir.
	web.odu.edu /webroot/instr/sci/plant.nsf/pages/aleppopine (210 words)

	The Lone Pine tree [Australian War Memorial]
		The Aleppo Pine (Pinus halepensis) in the Memorial's grounds was planted by HRH The Duke of Gloucester on 24 October 1934.
		After the capture of the Lone Pine ridge in Gallipoli (6 August 1915), an Australian Soldier who had taken part in the attack, in which his brother was killed, found a cone on one of the branches used by the Turks as overhead cover for their trenches, and sent it to his mother.
		From seed shed by it she raised the tree, which she presented to be planted in the War Memorial grounds in honour of her own and others' sons who fell at Lone Pine.
	www.awm.gov.au /encyclopedia/lone.htm (130 words)

	Aleppo Pine Blight Mite Arizona Arborist, Consultation Tree Health Care Service, Expert Witness, Disease Diagnosis, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Aleppo pines in the western U.S. date back to the late 1800’s when they were widely planted by early settlers.
		Aleppo pines are the most popular pines for warm desert landscapes of the southwestern U.S. In Arizona they are highly valued for being extremely heat and drought tolerant and for being one of the largest shade trees available for our urban deserts.
		Aleppo pine mites were extremely small and inconspicuous and did not produce webs, perhaps explaining why they had not been observed previously.
	www.artistic-arborist.com /may_2003.htm (2000 words)

	Pitch canker kills pines,
		In November 1992 an Aleppo pine in a Christmas tree plantation in San Diego county was found to be infected with the pathogen.
		The third native Monterey pine stand on the mainland, at Cambria, was not visited in 1992, and observations in 1993 and 1994 suggested that trees in that area were free of the disease.
		A Monterey pine was found infected with pitch canker at Ukiah, Mendocino County, at the junction of Talmage Road and U.S. Highway 101, in November of 1992.
	frap.cdf.ca.gov /pitch_canker/prevention_management/cal_ag.html (2840 words)

	Israel: Post-Fire Recovery of an East Mediterranean Aleppo Pine Forest Ecosystem (IFFN No. 15 - September 1996)
		The mixed pine and oak forests in this relatively dry ecosystem may be important for the survival of small mammals and others, as they provide food and thermal protection by reducing direct radiation mainly during the long warm and dry season.
		In addition to censuses carried out in the post-fire habitat, plots of Aleppo pine forest in the vicinity, which to our knowledge were not burned in the last century, were also sampled as control.
		In unburned pine forest 80% of the soil microarthropodes were of the order Acarina and Collembola, the rest belonged to other 18 orders.
	www.fire.uni-freiburg.de /iffn/country/il/il_5.htm (1325 words)

	Pine mycoses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		A general health evaluation of pine plantations, namely Austrian and Aleppo pine, two of the commonest Istrian plantation species, has revealed that the Aleppo pine is mainly in good condition on all research localities.
		On some of them the Austrian pine exhibits general good health, while in others significant dieback of the crown parts and of whole trees in various age classes was recorded.
		The analysis of the Austrian pine needles established 50.7% of uninfected needles.
	hrast.sumfak.hr /zavodi/hunting/mycose.html (680 words)

	Aleppo may not be best pine for Sedona
		ANSWER: The Aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis) usually is recommended for the low deserts because it tolerates drought, heat and wind.
		Pines that do well in Sedona include the Austrian fl pine, Japanese fl pine and Colorado blue spruce, Alford said.
		As to how one determines whether a pine tree sold by a nursery is acclimated to that altitude, take a look at how the pines stocked by that nursery are faring.
	www.azcentral.com /home/garden/articles/0724southwestgarden24.html (709 words)

	Definition of Rosin
		Rosin is a solid form of resin obtained from pines and some other plants, mostly conifers, produced by heating fresh liquid resin to vapourise the volatile liquid terpene components.
		It is the resinous constituent of the oleo-resin exuded by various species of pine, known in commerce as crude turpentine.
		In the north of Europe rosin is obtained from the Scots Pine P.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Rosin (750 words)

	Pine Tree (International Standard Bible Encyclopedia) :: Bible Tools (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Post (HDB, III, 592-93) considers that (1) should be translated as "pine," which he describes as a "fat wood tree"; it is perhaps as probably a correct translation for (2), but great uncertainty remains.
		Two species of pine are plentiful in the Lebanon and flourish in most parts of Palestine when given a chance.
		These are the stone pine, Pinus pinea, and the Aleppo pine, P. halepensis; all the highlands looking toward the sea are suited to their growth.
	bibletools.org /index.cfm/fuseaction/Def.show/RTD/ISBE/ID/6950 (254 words)

	Humus Forms in Mediterranean Scrublands with Aleppo Pine -- Peltier et al. 65 (3): 884 -- Soil Science Society of ...
		Humus Forms in Mediterranean Scrublands with Aleppo Pine -- Peltier et al.
		aleppo pine was a component of natural vegetation (maquis).
		A decreasing influence of pine was perceptible in the inner
	soil.scijournals.org /cgi/content/abstract/65/3/884 (355 words)

	Unasylva - Vol. 2, No. 2 - Forest conditions in Syria and Lebanon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		This small tract situated to the northwest of Aleppo, near the railroad from Aleppo to Ankara, is practically denuded as the result of unrestrained cutting carried out during World War I. It is reduced to coppice of Kermes oak, Quercus coccifera, with occasional Aleppo pines, Pinus halepensis, laricio pine, Pinus nigra var pallasiana.
		The Bassit, close to the sea, is covered with fairly dense and almost pure stands by Aleppo pine, unfortunately ravaged by fire.
		Farther to the south, the valley of the Nahr Ibrahim (the Adonis River of the ancients) holds a tract of almost pure Aleppo pine and near the watershed a vigorous crop of juniper which ends at an elevation of 2,000 meters.
	www.fao.org /docrep/x5343e/x5343e06.htm (2766 words)

	Al Mashriq - Fareed Abou-Haidar - Trees of Lebanon: Aleppo Pine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Aleppo Pine, Pinus halepensis, is one of the most common trees of Lebanon and much of the Mediterranean.
		It lacks the symmetry of most other pine trees, as it does not have a well-defined, dominant growing tip and has many side branches of equal prominence.
		The Aleppo pine tree produces large quantities of resin for which it is sometimes tapped for.
	almashriq.hiof.no /lebanon/300/360/363/363.7/fareed/lebenv19.html (658 words)

	Humus Forms in Mediterranean Scrublands with Aleppo Pine -- Peltier et al. 65 (3): 884 -- Soil Science Society of ...
		this was the age of most dominant individuals of aleppo pine.
		Aleppo pine, rosemary, and pistachio were growing isolated,
		Chemical components of Scots pine needles and needle litter and inhibition of fungal species by extractives.
	soil.scijournals.org /cgi/content/full/65/3/884 (5431 words)

	MSN Encarta - Print Preview - Jordan
		Grassland and wooded areas are found in the Jabal Ājlūn district between Amman and the Syrian border.
		In these regions the trees include willow, oleander, and tamarisk along the lower Jordan River valley and also ilex, olive, Aleppo pine, and palm.
		Wildlife includes the hyena, hyrax, gazelle, ibex, fox, partridge, mongoose, and mole rat; birds are also well represented.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761552293___2/Jordan.html (520 words)

	Pinus halepensis
		The Aleppo Pine has ancient associations with human culture; it was the source of a resin used in Egypt for embalming and is referred to in the Bible under the name fir (in correct accordance with the traditional meaning of that word).
		It is a common pine in southern Italy, where its ability to withstand drought is in its favor.
		N.B., As for other pines, the young closed cones are different in appearance than the open mature cones.
	trees.stanford.edu /ENCYC/PINhalepen.htm (205 words)

	Plant List 12 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Plant is similar to Aleppo pine only the habit is more pyramidal and predictable.
		Fast growing, single trunked tree growing to a height of 60 to 80 ft with a spread of 40 to 50 ft. This species is a 3 needle pine with individual needles being 6 to 12 inches long.
		In nature, Torrey Pine is always near the ocean, but in cultivation, seems to do nicely in the inland valley taking both heat and drought.
	www.csupomona.edu /~froth/hor231/plantlist12.html (1056 words)

	Digest (July 14, 2004)
		The tree, a 55-foot-tall Aleppo Pine in a Ramona Street front yard, is estimated to be more than 70 years old and has been called "the best example of an Aleppo Pine in all of Palo Alto." The tree is has a spread of 60 feet and is estimated to be worth nearly $40,000.
		Carlitz was surprised, however, to discover her pine would be only the city's seventh heritage tree.
		Carlitz said she might throw a party for the Aleppo Pine, inviting neighbors, the city arborist and the consulting arborist who's been caring for the tree for 18 years.
	www.paloaltoonline.com /weekly/morgue/2004/2004_07_14.digest.shtml (635 words)

	Virtual Bonsai Show - Aleppo Pine - Powered by PhotoPost (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		After the capture of the Lone Pine ridge in Gallipoli (6 August 1915) two Australian soldiers souvenired pinecones from the ridge that found their way back to Australia.
		Lance Corporal Benjamin Smith of the 3rd Battalion whose brother was killed in the battle, found a cone on one of the branches used by the Turks as overhead cover for their trenches, and sent it to his mother Mrs McMullen at Inverell in New South Wales.
		This Aleppo Pine (Pinus halepensis) seedling has been grown from seed taken from the Canberra tree and was issued by the official supplier of such.
	www.bonsaiweb.com /show/showphoto.php?photo=2753&cat=501 (407 words)

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