Botanical Name: Pinus ponderosa
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Common Name: Ponderosa Pine  
Plant photo of: Pinus ponderosa
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Check the soil's moisture level before watering.

You can reduce your water use 20-50% by regularly checking the soil before watering.

  • Anatomy

  • Culture

  • Design

Plant Type

Tree, Conifer

 

Height Range

40-60', 60-100'

 

Flower Color

n/a

 

Flower Season

n/a

 

Leaf Color

Green, Yellow Green

 

Bark Color

Brown

 

Fruit Color

Brown

 

Fruit Season

Fall

Information by: Stephanie Duer
Photographer: Betsy Thompson
  • Description

  • Notes

Ponderosa pine is a stately pine, growing slowly to 60 to 80 feet tall and 30 to 40 feet wide. It has long, graceful green to yellow green needles and long green cones that ripen to brown and have distinctive prickles. Its bark is thick, deeply furrowed, and yellowish-brown. A Utah native. There are ponderosa pines planted at the Greater Avenues Water Conservaton Demonstration Garden.