Scientific name: Pinus mugo

Common name: mugo pine

Family name: Pinaceae

Useful cultivars and selections:

USDA hardiness zone: 2

Mature height and spread: 3-5m tall and 4-7m wide

Form: irregular, pyramidal

Water use: moderate

Soil requirements: acidic, well-drained

Leaf arrangement: needle-like. Fascicles.

Fall colour: none

Flower/cone/fruit description: cone. Come out at 90 degrees. Small and end of each scale is grey with pointy bit

Limitations: often gets planted as low shrub but with age becomes very tall.

Suitable uses: dense looking, prunes into shrub nicely .Grows quickly

Quick ID: conifer. Tree. Evergreen.  Europe. Needle-like, in bunches of two (fascicles; very visible on stem; unique). Parallel venation. Spiky needles. Needles not in clusters but are alone on branches and point upwards.