At 29.3 metres, this is the tallest conifer on our Chicago map, and the biggest eastern white pine the Forest Preserves of Cook County have found on their land.
Eastern White Pine
Pinus strobus
Eastern white pine is the tallest conifer of eastern North America, and it crossed the Atlantic long ago as a park and estate tree. We map 3 of them, in 3 cities.
Europeans still often call it the Weymouth pine, a name two of our entries keep. In Graz the Eggenberg Weymouth Pine stands inside the palace grounds, 3.7 metres round. In Berlin-Dahlem the Weymouth pine of the TU Schaugärten is put at roughly 120 years. Back in its home range, the champion of Busse Forest North in Chicago's forest preserves stands 29.3 metres tall and 2.6 metres around.
Chicago
Berlin
This species was once a strategic asset.
Graz
A field measurement from October 2016, cited by Wikipedia's own list of Graz's protected trees, gives this Eastern White Pine a trunk 3.70 metres round and a height of about 27 metres, figures the...
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