The sugar pine can grow up to 200 feet tall and can live up to 500 years. It has slender deep blue-green needles with white tips, clustered in bundles of five. Its long, horizontal branches often droop at the ends from the weight of its 22-inch cones. It grows in elevations of 5,500 to 8,000 feet.
Like all pine trees, the sugar pine offers nutrition thro…
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