Calabrian pine (Pinus brutia)

Family: Pinaceae | Edibility: Edible (2/5)

Calabrian pine - the "Lone Pine", is a prominent landmark tree at an ANZAC First World War battle at Gallipoli. Cones from the battlefield were taken home to Australia. It is widely planted for timber. It is drought-tolerant, with fire resistant cones allowing it to successfully colonize dry, abandoned and burnt areas. As a carbon farming solutions plant it is a good hydrocarbon Industrial Crop.

Edible Parts & Harvest Seasons

Edible Parts: Leaves

Harvest Seasons: Fall, Spring, Winter

Flavor & Culinary Uses

flavour white wines known as retsina. — The resin has been used from ancient times to flavour white wines known as retsina.; A sap-sucking insect, Marchalina hellenica, produces large amounts of honey-dew, which is harvested by honeybees and sold as 'pine honey'.; Pinus brutia was planted outside its native range in Greece from early times for this harvest.

Habitat & North American Range

Relatively open conifer forests, sometimes in pure stands, open mixed woodland with other drought tolerant trees; at elevations from near sea level to 1,500 metres. (Zone 7)