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Coulter pine

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Coul·ter pine  (kltr)
n.
A pine tree (Pinus coulteri) native to California and Baja California, having bluish-green needles in bundles of three and bearing sharp-scaled cones that are the heaviest of all pines.

[After Thomas Coulter (1793-1843), Irish botanist.]
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Coulter pine
Pinus coulteri


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Native seedlings of coulter pine, white fir, and bigcone Douglas-fir are being handed out to private landowners who have lost trees either from the 2003 wildfires or bark beetle infestation.
The average champion tree in California is 301 points, roughly equivalent to its national champion Coulter pine, which stands 141 feet tall and 4 feet thick in San Diego County.
A little farther on (26 1/2 miles from Castaic) are the ruins of Sandberg's Summit Hotel, now overgrown by sage, Coulter pine, valley oaks and incense cedars.
 
 
 
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