Feb 28, 2025
Jeffrey Pine above and White Fir. Stanislaus River, Stanislaus Forest Reserve, California.
U.S. Geologic Survey. 1900.
David Rumsey via Internet Archive
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Jeffrey Pine above and White Fir. Stanislaus River, Stanislaus Forest Reserve, California.
U.S. Geologic Survey. 1900.
David Rumsey via Internet Archive
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Jeffrey pine (Pinus jeffreyi), San Gabriel Mountains National Monument, California, 1990.
Any Excuse to Visit Lassen Volcanic National Park by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the southwest while taking in views across an open area through some nearby evergreen pine trees with a view beyond to Cinder Cone. This was while hiking along the namesake trail in Lassen Volcanic National Park. What I loved about this setting and captured image was the layers present. There was the foreground interest with the open of the volcanic sand and small rocks, interspace with the evergreen trees. And then seemingly rising out off in the distance was the mountain peak of Cinder Cone, all with blue skies as a backdrop.
Vanishing wonders: Natural arches fall. Sea stacks crumble into the surf. Lava swallows coastlines. Breathtaking landmarks that were around one day, may not be the next (like the famous Jeffrey pine atop Yosemite’s Sentinel Dome, above).
PHOTOGRAPH BY HARALD SUND, GETTY IMAGES
Phaeocollybia olivacea, in mid-november, found growing at 4600' on Titlow Hill amongst Ponderosa & Jeffrey Pine leaf litter.
A 30 image focus stack
Six Rivers National Forest, Willow Creek
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Four attempts at recreating Ansel Adams’ “Jeffrey Pine, Sentinel Dome, Yosemite National Park, California” using MidJourney’s text-to-image AI
Jeffrey Pine (Pinus jeffreyi)
(easiest Latin name ever tbh)
Jeffrey pines are large conifers in the Pinus family. They typically grow to about 25-40m or 80-130ft tall and live in high altitude ecosystems around 1,500- 2,900m or 4,900 to 9,500ft in elevation.
The needles of the Jeffrey pine grow in bunches of 3 and are blue green in color. Solid 8/10 tree to handshake with.
The cones are spikey and have lil barbs at the end of each scale, but the scales all point inward, so it you ran your hand down the side of the cone you would (most likely) not get stabbed.
Still wouldn't want to get decked with one.
The bark of the Jeffrey pine has a jagged jigsaw-puzzle-pieces look to it. One of the easiest ways to ID these trees (besides the elevation) is their scent. The bark of Jeffrey pines smells like vanilla. Or butterscotch. Results may vary.
The smell is a result of a compound called heptane, which is highly explosive. Folks would sometimes confuse Jeffrey pines with the (somewhat) similar looking relative, the Ponderosa pine (which conveniently ALSO smells like vanilla) to make turpentines, with very…explosive results.
Which is one of the many reasons it’s very important to correctly ID plants before trying to do anything with them.
Quill! Have you heard of Jeffrey Pine trees? They smell like butterscotch!
AHH! NO I HAVEN’T THAT SOUNDS GLORIOUS
It reminds me a lot of Yellow Birches around where I live! If you snap off a fresh branch, they smell like wintergreen! There are stories that the first peoples here used to use them like sweet smelling toothpicks. I dunno how accurate that is, but that certainly didn’t stop me from gathering a bunch of twigs when I was a child. XD
I heckin’ love weird and cool plant facts! Considering I’m currently developing an alien world with tons of unique flora, I’d love if people were to drop into my inbox with a neat plant fact! I’ll toss one right back at you~