page_title: Pinus strobus
section_title: Diameter
hierarchical_section_title: Pinus strobus / Description / Dimensions / Diameter
caption_attribution_description: English: White pine boughs, showing yellowing and abscission of older foliage in the autumn. Upstate New York.
context_page_description: Pinus strobus, commonly denominated the eastern white pine, northern white pine, white pine, Weymouth pine, and soft pine is a large pine native to eastern North America. It occurs from Newfoundland, Canada west through the Great Lakes region to southeastern Manitoba and Minnesota, United States, and south along the Appalachian Mountains and upper Piedmont to northernmost Georgia and perhaps very rarely in some of the higher elevations in northeastern Alabama.
  The Native American Haudenosaunee denominated it the "Tree of Peace". It is known as the "Weymouth pine" in the United Kingdom, after Captain George Weymouth of the British Royal Navy, who brought its seeds to England from Maine in 1605.
context_section_description: Diameters of the larger pines range from 1.0–1.6 m (3 ft 3 in–5 ft 3 in), which translates to a circumference (girth) range of 3.1–5.0 m (10 ft 2 in–16 ft 5 in). However, single-trunked white pines in both the Northeast and Southeast with diameters over 1.45 m (4 ft 9 in) are exceedingly rare. Notable big pine sites of 40 ha (99 acres) or less will often have no more than 2 or 3 trees in the 1.2 to 1.4 m (3 ft 11 in to 4 ft 7 in) diameter class.
  Unconfirmed reports from the colonial era gave diameters of virgin white pines of up to 2.4 m (8 ft).
caption: White pine boughs, showing annual yellowing and abscission of older foliage in the autumn. Upstate New York, USA.
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