Pinus spp. of the family Pinaceae, the pine family
there are something just under 8 zillion kinds of pine and I have broken out only ponderosa pine, radiata pine, white pine, and yellow pine with their own pages on this site and what's below is everything else that I have on pine. To see an extensive list of the species in the genus Pinus, see:
a couple of shots taken at a lumber yard of planks labled just "pine" with no subspecies
some planks shot at LOWES. These just were labled "select pine"
flat cut heart pine planks photographed at a lumber yard. As you can see, the "heart" is only about half the plank, so the designation is, to my mind, hightly suspect. I think "heart pine" is a term that is thrown around VERY loosely. There are two specific species that have the phrase "heart pine" as all or part of one or more of their common names and these are Pinus palustris and P. taeda but the consensus is that the term "heart pine" does not refer to a species but to a plank's being all or mostly heartwood from ANY pine species.
end grain of some different flat cut heart pine planks at the same lumber yard
loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) sample plank and end grain. The crappy quality of this sample (with pinholes and blue stain) is fairly common in the samples I got from the IWCS.
end grain closeup of the piece directly above --- note the relatively similar widths of early and late growth, as opposed to the much wider early grown in most pine. I don't know if that's characteristic of loblolly pine, or is unusual. The one web pic that I have below shows are more "normal" wide early growth.
sample plank and end grain sold to me as longleaf pine / Pinus palustris
end grain closeup of the piece directly above
both sides of a sample plank of Virginia pine (Pinus virginiana). Normally, in formal wood samples, you would NOT expect to find a piece that is so heavy with knots, but this one is from the IWCS, an organization that provides an awful lot of crappy pieces in their sample set.
end grain and end grain closeup of the piece directly above
flat cut, quartersawn, end grain
pinyon pine (Pinus monotphylla, also listed as single-leaf pinyon pine and nut pine) from The Wood Book --- both levels of enlargement are available for each of the 3 views
flat cut, quartersawn, end grain
Norway pine (Pinus resinosa, also listed as red pine) from The Wood Book --- both levels of enlargement are available for each of the 3 views
flat cut, quartersawn, end grain
Cuban pine (Pinus cubensis) from The Wood Book --- both levels of enlargement are available for each of the 3 views. This wood is listed in The Wood Book as slash pine, swamp pine, bastard pine, and meadow pine, and NOT Cuban pine, but other references seem to agree that it is Cuban pine and grows only in Cuba so I'm puzzled by its inclusion in The Wood Book and also by all these other common names, which only show up in MY data base with other botanical names.
flat cut, quartersawn, end grain
sugar pine (Pinus lamberitana) from The Wood Book --- both levels of enlargement are available for each of the 3 views
flat cut, quartersawn, end grain
torrey pine (Pinus torreyana, also listed as Del Mar pine and Soledad pine) from The Wood Book --- both levels of enlargement are available for each of the 3 views
flat cut, quartersawn, end grain
Bishop's pine (Pinus muricata, also listed prickle-cone pine, swamp pine and Obispo pine) from The Wood Book --- both levels of enlargement are available for each of the 3 views
flat cut, quartersawn, end grain
knobcone pine (Pinus attenuata) from The Wood Book --- both levels of enlargement are available for each of the 3 views
flat cut, quartersawn, end grain
sabine pine (Pinus sabiniana, also listed as gray-leaf pine and digger pine) from The Wood Book --- both levels of enlargement are available for each of the 3 views
flat cut, quartersawn, end grain
pitch pine (Pinus rigida) from The Wood Book --- both levels of enlargement are available for each of the 3 views. I find this combination of common name / botanical name a bit strange since my database shows 8 different Pinus species that use the name pitch pine and P. rigida is not one of them AND my database shows that in Australia and a few other countries, P. rigida IS called pitch pine. BUT ... The Wood Book is supposedly only about American woods, so I'm puzzled.
flat cut, quartersawn, end grain
Jersey pine (Pinus inops, also listed as scrub pine) from The Wood Book --- both levels of enlargement are available for each of the 3 views.
flat cut, quartersawn, end grain
scrub pine (Pinus clausa, also listed as sand pine and upland spruce pine) from The Wood Book --- both levels of enlargement are available for each of the 3 views.
flat cut, quartersawn, end grain
jack pine (Pinus banksiana, not listed the The Wood Book as jack pine but rather as gray pine, Northern scrub pine, and Prince's pine but the more normal name for it these days is jack pine) from The Wood Book --- both levels of enlargement are available for each of the 3 views.
flat cut, quartersawn, end grain
pond pine (Pinus serotina) from The Wood Book --- both levels of enlargement are available for each of the 3 views.
flat cut, quartersawn, end grain
bigcone pine (Pinus coulteri) from The Wood Book --- both levels of enlargement are available for each of the 3 views.
flat cut, quartersawn, end grain
parry pinyon pine (Pinus quadrifolia, also listed as Mexico pinyon pine and nut pine) from The Wood Book --- both levels of enlargement are available for each of the 3 views.
flat cut, quartersawn, end grain
limber pine (Pinus flexilis, also listed as Rocky Mountain white pine) from The Wood Book --- both levels of enlargement are available for each of the 3 views.
flat cut, quartersawn, end grain
Balfour pine (Pinus balfouriana, also foxtail pine) from The Wood Book --- both levels of enlargement are available for each of the 3 views.
flat cut, quartersawn, end grain
Table Mountain pine (Pinus pungens) from The Wood Book --- both levels of enlargement are available for each of the 3 views.
web pics:
Having broken out a few of the pine species/types with pages of their own (Ponderosa, Radiata, white, yellow, etc) I have now split up this remaining batch into a few groups and then a "misc" catchall
CYPRESS PINE
NOTE: both Pinus brutia and Pinus halepensishave the common name (among other) cypress pine and there may be more.
Also, there are a large number of species in the genus Callitris that have cypress pine as all or part of one or more of their common names although they are neither cypress nor pine (but they are Australian woods, which explains why the common names are meaningless)
planks listed as cypress pine / Pinus halepensis
HEART PINE
NOTE: Pinus palustris and Pinus taeda both use the common name heart pine (among many others) and there may be others
heart pine flat cut, quartersawn, end grain
plank listed as reclaimed heart pine and with wet and dry sections
reclaimed heart pine planks
heart pine plank
heart pine plank and end grain pics submitted by James Taglienti, whom I thank for this and other contributions to the site.
heart pine turning stock
heart pine door
heart pine hollow form
MARITIME PINE
only Pinus pinaster uses the common name maritime pine
maritime pine (Pinus pinastre) flat cut and end grain
maritime pine flat cut, quartersawn, end grain
maritime pine planks
NORWAY PINE
NOTE: only Pinus resinosa has the common name Norway pine
Norway pine planks
SCOTCH / SCOTS PINE
(the names are equivalent)
end grain
Scots / Scotch pine plank
planks listed as Scots or Scotch pine / Pinus sylvestris
Scots pine veneer, 2 flat cut pieces and a quartersawn piece
WEYMOUTH PINE
NOTE: only Pinus strobus has the common name Weymouth pine, but it also has MANY other common names
Weymouth pine planks
MISCELLANEOUS OTHER PINE SPECIES
hoop pine
sugar pine carving blocks
sugar pine plank
aromatic Swiss pine veneer
blue pine planks
silver pine planks
caribbean heart pine plank --- this is, presumably, just Caribbean pine that someone has decided to call "heart pine"
carolina pine veneer
denim pine plank
jack pine plank
pine and knotty pine planks
knotty pine veneer
loblolly pine plank
loblolly pine end grain
lodgepole pine plank
Russian pine plank
red pine plank
sugar pine planks
swedish pine plank
Virginia pine plank
spalted pine
this was listed as "spalted" but the owner commented on the fact that the tree had been in a fire and it appears to me that this is not spalting at all but discoloration due to the fire
three views of a pine plank that is VERY heavy is small-branch incursions. So much so in fact that the man who sent me these pics, Craig Bingman (thanks Craig) said some folks he showed it to called it, tongue in cheek, "bird's eye pine". We're not even positive that it IS pine (it was being sold at a lumber yard as "whitewood" which is not a very helpful designation, although it IS used for some forms of pine, most particulary Eastern white pine).
planks just labled pine
just labled pine veneer
bowls just labled as pine
vases with blue stain
bowl made from saplted pine
bowl just listed as "pine" --- looks just like a spittoon except it's not deep enough
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