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So far you have made the following choices...

It could be one of the species in the table below. Let's narrow our choices by counting the number of needles in a cluster.
clusters of 2
clusters of 3
clusters of 5

Possible matches:
Pinus albicaulis - whitebark pine
Pinus aristata - bristlecone pine
Pinus attenuata - knobcone pine
Pinus banksiana - jack pine
Pinus bungeana - lacebark pine
Pinus cembra - Swiss stone pine
Pinus clausa - sand pine
Pinus contorta - lodgepole pine
Pinus coulteri - Coulter pine
Pinus densiflora - Japanese red pine
Pinus echinata - shortleaf pine
Pinus edulis - pinyon pine
Pinus eldarica - Afghan pine
Pinus elliottii - slash pine
Pinus engelmannii - Apache pine
Pinus flexilis - limber pine
Pinus glabra - spruce pine
Pinus halepensis - Aleppo pine
Pinus jeffreyi - Jeffrey pine
Pinus lambertiana - sugar pine
Pinus leiophylla - Chihuahua pine
Pinus monticola - western white pine
Pinus mugo - mugo pine
Pinus muricata - Bishop pine
Pinus nigra - Austrian pine
Pinus palustris - longleaf pine
Pinus parviflora - Japanese white pine
Pinus pinea - Italian stone pine
Pinus ponderosa - ponderosa pine
Pinus pungens - Table Mountain pine
Pinus quadrifolia - Parry pine
Pinus radiata - Monterey pine
Pinus resinosa - red pine
Pinus rigida - pitch pine
Pinus roxburghii - chir pine
Pinus sabiniana - gray pine
Pinus serotina - pond pine
Pinus strobiformis - southwestern white pine
Pinus strobus - eastern white pine
Pinus sylvestris - Scots pine
Pinus taeda - loblolly pine
Pinus thunbergii - Japanese black pine
Pinus torreyana - Torrey pine
Pinus virginiana - Virginia pine
Pinus wallichiana - Himalaya pine

 

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