pinus nigra

Pinus nigra, the Austrian pine or black pine, is a moderately variable species of pine, occurring across southern Mediterranean Europe from Spain to the eastern Mediterranean, on the Anatolian peninsula of Turkey on Corsica and Cyprus as well as Crimea and in the high mountains of the Maghreb in North Africa.

Pinus nigra is a tree of the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub biome.

The majority of the range is in Turkey. It is found in the higher elevations of the South Apennine mixed montane ...