Tree

Bark	Leaves
Male Flowers	Fruit

Height: <30 m, Age: <200 yr
Ectomycorrhizal
Persistent Seed Bank
Monoecious, Flowering May - June (Earliest: 29.4)

Protective Chemicals
Monoterpenoids	Bornyl Acetate, Camphene, Carene, Limonene, Menthatriene, Myrcene, Ocimene, Phellandrene, Pinene, Sabinene, Terpinene, Terpinolene, Thujene
Sesquiterpenoids	Bicyclogermacrene, Cadinene, Caryophyllene, Copaene, Elemene, Farnesene, Germacrene, Humulene, Muurolene
Phenolics	Pinosylvin, Tannins
Acids	Abietic, Dehydroabietic, Neoabietic, Palustric, Pimaric
Polyhydroxysteroids	Typhasterol

Biotopes:	Spruce Forest	Hedge Rows
Pollination:	Wind
Mycorrhizae:	Cantharellus cibarius	Craterellus tubaeformis	Clavulina coralloides	Clavulina cinerea
	Hydnum rufescens	Thelephora terrestris	Coltricia perennis	Many Boletaceae
	Several Suillaceae	Scleroderma bovista	Scleroderma citrinum	Paxillus involutus
	Chroogomphus rutilus	Many Russulaceae	Many Amanitaceae	Many Cortinariaceae
	Several Entolomataceae	Several Hydnangiaceae	Several Hygrophoraceae	Several Hymenogastraceae
	Many Inocybaceae	Many Tricholomataceae
Parasites:	Heterobasidion annosum	Fomitopsis pinicola	Phaeolus schweinitzii	Sparassis crispa
	Armillaria ostoyae	Cedestis subfasciella Larva (Needle Miner)
Herbivores:	Many Geometridae	Many Tortricidae	Sphinx pinastri	Lymantria monacha Larva
	Panolis flammea Larva	Panthea coenobita Larva	Dioryctria abietella Larva	Teleiodes saltuum Larva
	Many Curculionidae	Cryptocephalus pini
Sapivores:	Several Miridae	Several Pentatomidae	Balclutha punctata	Prociphilus pini
	Cixius simplex
Xylophages:	Several Cerambycidae Larvae (Wood Borers)	Several Curculionidae	Anthaxia quadripunctata Larva (Wood Borer)	Microbregma emarginatum Larva (Wood Borer)
	Paraphotistus impressus Larva (Roots)	Chyliza annulipes Larva	Cydia cosmophorana Larva
Granivores:	Streptopelia turtur	Cydia strobilella	Eupithecia abietaria Larva	Gastrodes grossipes
Bark Inhabitants:	Several Parmeliaceae	Cladonia coniocraea	Lepraria incana	Dicranoweisia cirrata
Wood Decomposers:	Several Strophariaceae	Mycena purpureofusca	Panellus mitis	Tricholomopsis decora
	Tricholomopsis rutilans	Armillaria ostoyae	Pluteus roseipes	Psathyrella caput-medusae
	Gymnopilus sapineus	Pleurocybella porrigens	Connopus acervatus	Heterobasidion annosum
	Stereum sanguinolentum	Tapinella atrotomentosa	Several Dacrymycetaceae	Several Hymenochaetaceae
	Pseudohydnum gelatinosum	Trichaptum abietinum	Exidia saccharina	Tremella encephala
	Several Fomitopsidaceae	Neolentinus adhaerens	Skeletocutis amorpha	Pezicula livida
	Several Cerambycidae Larvae	Several Curculionidae	Xylosciara lignicola Larva	Siricidae Larvae
	Gymnosperm Generalists
Needle Decomposers:	Several Mycenaceae	Rhodocollybia filamentosa	Gymnosperm Generalists

Ecological Flora of the British Isles
Skye Flora: Scots Pine

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