The Black Pine or Austrian Pine is an attractive and popular landscape tree prized for its dense, dark green foliage. The Black Pine grows on a wide variety of soils. It prefers full sun. Care should be taken when transplanting to use container trees when possible. Things to Watch For Pests include adelgids, bark beetles, sawfly larvae , pine spittle bugs, spruce mites and the Zimmerman pine moth.
Black pines are extremely susceptible to tip blight.