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Latin name

Family

Distribution

North America distribution zone

Height

Foliage

Ecology

Use

Synonym

English name

French name

Spanish name

Other name

Trade name

Pinus virginiana Mill.

Pinaceae

ME North America (USA: Indiana to New York and New Jersey, Mississippi to Georgia)

hel [sci] mes->xer calc acid->basi

cl (magic) dr (a powder resin can be sprinkled on sores, a roots tea made with small rose and alder is useful for piles, a tea from the boughs is good for cold or to break out measles, a tea made from the buds or inside bark is good for hard dry cough, worms, hysterics, colic, gout, weak back, kidneys and child-bed fevers, applied externally for swelled testicles caused by mumps, as an oil for cold and bathing painful joints, chew the bark to check bowels, for swelling of the breasts, gentle laxative, needles or gum are used to scent soap, needles with bark of witch hazel and spicewood is used in hot tea to break out fever, needles with summer grape stem and apple juice is drunk by ball players for wind, pine branches are burned in cooking vessels and the ashes are thrown on the rekindled hearth fire after a death in the home, steam from the needles can relieve cold, stimulant, tar plaster is used externally for scaldhead, tetterworm, stone bruise and foul sores or ulcers, the syrup is used for pregnant women with cough, for catarrh (ulcer of the lungs), chronic rheumatism and venereal disease, the tar is used for consumption, you can boil the roots, skim off turpentine and spread on deer's skin for drawing plaster) fr fw (fuel) ma (needles are also used in basketry) pl pp (pulp) sa ti (posts)

Pinus inops Aiton Pinus ruthenica Horst. Pinus variabilis Lamb. non Pursh

Virginia pine; Jersey pine, poverty-pine, scrub pine, spruce pine p.p., spruce-pine

pin de Virginie; pin de Jersey

Jersey-Kiefer (german); pino della Virginia (italian); Virginische Kiefer (german)

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Latin name	Pinus virginiana Mill.
Family	Pinaceae
Distribution	ME North America (USA: Indiana to New York and New Jersey, Mississippi to Georgia)
North America distribution zone	ME
Height	L
Foliage	E
Ecology	hel [sci] mes->xer calc acid->basi
Use	cl (magic) dr (a powder resin can be sprinkled on sores, a roots tea made with small rose and alder is useful for piles, a tea from the boughs is good for cold or to break out measles, a tea made from the buds or inside bark is good for hard dry cough, worms, hysterics, colic, gout, weak back, kidneys and child-bed fevers, applied externally for swelled testicles caused by mumps, as an oil for cold and bathing painful joints, chew the bark to check bowels, for swelling of the breasts, gentle laxative, needles or gum are used to scent soap, needles with bark of witch hazel and spicewood is used in hot tea to break out fever, needles with summer grape stem and apple juice is drunk by ball players for wind, pine branches are burned in cooking vessels and the ashes are thrown on the rekindled hearth fire after a death in the home, steam from the needles can relieve cold, stimulant, tar plaster is used externally for scaldhead, tetterworm, stone bruise and foul sores or ulcers, the syrup is used for pregnant women with cough, for catarrh (ulcer of the lungs), chronic rheumatism and venereal disease, the tar is used for consumption, you can boil the roots, skim off turpentine and spread on deer's skin for drawing plaster) fr fw (fuel) ma (needles are also used in basketry) pl pp (pulp) sa ti (posts)
Synonym	Pinus inops Aiton Pinus ruthenica Horst. Pinus variabilis Lamb. non Pursh
English name	Virginia pine; Jersey pine, poverty-pine, scrub pine, spruce pine p.p., spruce-pine
French name	pin de Virginie; pin de Jersey
Spanish name
Other name	Jersey-Kiefer (german); pino della Virginia (italian); Virginische Kiefer (german)
Trade name