A tall, slender pine tree with light brown, hard, stiff, brittle, straight-grained heartwood with thick, whitish sapwood; found in western North America from southern California to the Yukon River; used for lumber and log cabins; Pinus murrayana. Also known as bird’s-eye pine, screwpine. (Bucher, 1996)
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