Gray Pine, Foothill Pine, Digger Pine             PI-nus sa-been-ee-ah-na

• Conifer, evergreen tree, 40-70 ft (12-21 m) tall or higher, often multistemmed and crooked trunk, crown rounded and open.  Bark gray-brown, thick, deeply fissured, exfoliating in irregular patches, revealing a red-brown under bark.  Needles 3 per bundle, 20-30 cm long, slender, 1.5 mm wide, drooping, light blue-green, serrate on margins, stomatal lines on all sides, leaf sheath about 25 mm at first.  Cones solitary or several laterally arranged, persisting for 3-7 years, mostly 15-25 cm long, egg-shaped, cone-scales long, thick.
• Sun or light shade. Best if grown on well-drained soil, found on dry ridges in foothills and low mountains.  Very ornamental.
• Hardy to USDA Zone 8     Native to northern and southern California, in the Coast Range and the Sierra Nevada.
• sabiniana: after Joseph Sabine, (1770-1837) British barrister and horticulturist, patron of David Douglas (who introduced the pine in England in 1832).
• Corvallis: on the east side of Arboretum Road.