Re: pine tree question

"Autumn"  wrote
> This is hard to describe without a photograph. I just returned from 
> Ireland and while there I saw a really unique pine tree. It was huge and

> the best way to describe it is it looks as if it were made from large
pipe 
> cleaners. It was definitely a decorative and not native tree. The
overall 
> look is very bare, in that you can see through it very very easily. The 
> limbs were single branches with very few boughs branching off of each of

> them. I looked like a bare tree made from pine limbs. Not sure saying it

> was a Charlie Brown Christmas tree, but it would fit that description.
The 
> pine boughs were large with needles. My guess would be a bough was 4-5 
> inches across. They grew quite large.
>
> I have been searching on the internet for days and have not seen
anything 
> like it. I have half a dozen tree books and it is not in any of them. I 
> saw them in and around Cork City. I do have a photograph of them, but
this 
> newsgroup probably does not sup****t binaries.
>
> It might be good to say it looked like a skeleton of a pine tree. I hope
I 
> have said something that someone will recognize.
>
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
Except for the "huge" comment it sounds like one of the two types of 
Bristlecone Pines (Pinus aristata or P. longaeva).

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Regards
Bob H
17mls W. of London.UK