Mediterranean pine

Seeds: 6  / Botanical name: Pinus pinea

Mediterranean holiday feeling for your own home

Mediterranean vacationers know the relaxing feeling of lingering in the shade of a pine tree and inhaling the fragrant, spicy scent of its soft, dark green needles. With minimal care, this can also be achieved at home, as the Italian holm oak thrives in a container indoors and develops its characteristic umbrella-shaped crown. The pine has been cultivated since antiquity for its edible seeds, the pine nuts. A single tree can yield up to 60 kg of seeds.

Natural habitat: The pine's natural range is the northern Mediterranean region, from the Iberian Peninsula to Anatolia.