Next chapter - Rare pines of Mr. Malik CZ First published Pinus longaeva and monophylla brooms Pinus longaeva Rockford Mesterhazy & Malik photo Pinus longaeva Schulman Mesterhazy & Malik photo Pinus longaeva Schulman Mesterhazy & Malik photo Pinus longaeva Starlight Mesterhazy & Malik photo Pinus longaeva Starlight Mesterhazy & Malik photo Pinus monophylla Blue Sun Mesterhazy & Malik photo Pinus monophylla Blue Sun Mesterhazy & Malik photo Pinus monophylla Conway Summit # 2 Mesterhazy & Malik photo Pinus monophylla Dream Boy Mesterhazy & Malik photo Pinus monophylla Dream Boy Mesterhazy & Malik photo Pinus monophylla Eeney Mesterhazy & Malik photo Pinus monophylla Hot Summer Mesterhazy & Malik photo Pinus monophylla Hot Summer Mesterhazy & Malik photo Pinus monophylla Oregon Mesterhazy & Malik photo Pinus monophylla Space Cowboy Mesterhazy & Malik photo Pinus monophylla Sunrise Mesterhazy & Malik photo Pinus monophylla Sunrise Mesterhazy & Malik photo Pinus monophylla Sunrise Mesterhazy & Malik photo Pinus monophylla Sunset Mesterhazy & Malik photo Pinus monophylla Sunset Mesterhazy & Malik photo Pinus monophylla Terinka Mesterhazy & Malik photo Pinus mugo Austria Mesterhazy & Malik photo Pinus mugo Eisbar Mesterhazy & Malik photo Pinus mugo Golden Glow Mesterhazy & Malik photo Pinus mugo Golden Glow Mesterhazy & Malik photo Pinus mugo Hennenbichler Mesterhazy & Malik photo Pinus mugo Herbstsonne Mesterhazy & Malik photo Pinus mugo Irmi Mesterhazy & Malik photo Pinus mugo Jacobsen Mesterhazy & Malik photo Pinus mugo Laarheide Mesterhazy & Malik photo Pinus mugo Latmops Mesterhazy & Malik photo Pinus mugo Lemon Mesterhazy & Malik photo Pinus mugo Little Delight Mesterhazy & Malik photo Pinus mugo Longholz Mesterhazy & Malik photo Zsolt conifertreasury.org

Here are my finds this winter. As I haven't time, experience, or space for grafting (Yet!), anyone wanting scions for propagation - just e-mail me! fishmanejr@yahoo.com #1) Pinus sylvestris 'Bailey's Upright' This dense upright broom was on the end of a branch in a mature upright/fastigiate form of P. sylvestris. The needles also have a subtle but noticable bluish tint, and the broom produces many tiny cones hidden in the dense needles! #2) Pinus strobus 'quill pig' This one only grows 1 to 1.5 inches per year and has very short, stiff needles that point toward the tip of the twigs, which are considerably thicker than the usual P. strobus twigs. The parent broom is very dense and crowding itself out in spots. #3) Larix kaempferi 'Lazarus' This is a short and wide broom that still maintains a central leader of sorts. It is an intermediate grower putting out 3 to 3.5 inches per year. #4) Pinus strobus (no name yet) This small broom was found growing off a main branch right next to the trunk and very low on the tree - that is, it was found growing in dense shade. Because of this, I'm hoping it will be more dense once grafted and grown in semi/full sun. This little guy grows 1.5 to 2 inches a year. May or may not be worth propagating.

Nate, the spruce outside the garden door is a Picea abies Virgata. I saw on my trip a 30 meters high Virgata, beautiful sight. I saw other things, too. North of Brno on a hill I "found" 2 very big Picea abies brooms near Mikulovice 40 meters high. Maybe some day Jan takes it with professional alpinists? Not far from Belecko, Valenta's gardens I saw above the road a Pinus sylvestris broom about 15 meters high with 0,5 meter diameter. If you search intensively, you can find so many, whatever you want. Zsolt

"Resin, are Pinus leucodermis and Pinus heldreichii differend in the way they look like Szolt is telling us and what are the differences?" There's no difference. Pinus heldreichii was described by Konrad Christ in 1863, and then Franz Antoine described it just a year later without knowing about Christ's earlier description. The problem lay in that (a) Antoine's publication was more widely available so his name became better known, (b) Christ's herbarium cone specimen was immature (collected in July) and was also later lost, and (c) Balkan nationalist politics made it expedient for local people to believe their tree was different to the one across the border in the territory of the enemy. So claims of "differences" between them were invented, based at least partly around the shrivelled immature cone of Christ's material. Zsolt's claim of P. heldreichii being "a geographical version of the Pinus nigra" is totally without foundation. Christ's description (translated from German): Leaves 2½" to good 3" [6-8cm] long, narrower than 1''' [2mm], the shoots thickly covered by them (5 years), standing curved out. Cones 2½" [6cm] long, 1" [2.5cm] broad, long conic, very slender at apex, twinned (in Boissier's herbarium), standing out horizontal, sessile. Apophysis unripe and dried finely wrinkled, cross-keeled. Umbo totally different to P. pinaster: in a hollow, the edge of which rises in a swelling above and below, above with a small, smooth and sharp mucro sharply bent in or sunken. This, with the habit and locality, approach the next species [P. mugo], from which it is told by the size and shape of the cones. Colour of the latter purple-brown. A highly interesting species, which, as intermediate between P. pinaster and P. montana [mugo], justifies that Endlicher 169 places both of these together. A true mountain plant: from Heldreich, 31 July 1851 on the Thessal. Olympus, found with Pinus laricio [P. nigra], Abies apollinis [A. cephalonica] and Fagus sylvatica, and sent to Mr Boissier as 'Pinus pinaster ? Aiton'. Common name ῥεμὦαγα. Pinus heldreichii, Pirin Mts., Bulgaria: Resin