Foothills Pine

Foothill Pine (Pinus Sabiniana) aka the Ghost Pine or the Grey Pine is a slow growing Sierra Nevada Foothills tree, They produce creamy, sweet, voluptuos, and highly nutritious seeds. The Grey pine cone has a tendency to profer a large amount of sap, this sap has been used medicinally to heal wounds as an antiseptic, to clear up the lungs, for rhuematoid arthritis,

we are incredibly blessed to have them in the Moon Manzanita Forest lands. They are highly drought tolerant and ours we offer here at moon manzanita are absolutely massive, they grow between 40 to 80 plus feet and often branch into two leaders, so about half way up the trunk they have a tendency to split into two or more separate pine tops, this leads to a more fragile tree. Some are incredibly twisty and leany

Last year I was out in a rain storm trying to make a ditch for the rain to follow before it flooded the container with my belongings stored in it, I looked at the Grey pine next to me and knew it was going to fall, there was nothing out of the ordinary occuring except a heavy storm, I just felt I needed to be certain I was out of the way of its lean, as they have a tendency to be leaners (some grow to a certain sideways) So I moved myself to its non leaning side and two seconds later I heard a massive crack and watched as the 80 foot tree right in front of me fell. 

They will have side growing tap roots if the environment calls for it (such as the solid terrain of a lava cap that Moon Manzanita Forest begins upon and I was standing on the tap root that had decided for some reason or other to split entirely, thus the tree fell. Thankfully I had been listening to the tree when it told me to move and I was on the not being crushed side of its fall.

I adore these trees. They smell absolutely amazing!

They make some of the largest pine cones on earth.

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