Any cones?

Resin

OK, my Mom and Dad apparently have different versions of how it arrived. My Dad said it took root on it's own. My Mom said it blew onto the garage roof and she told my brother to plant it somewhere. (In a rather terrible spot, actually.)

It's survived hurricanes and a bark beetle epidemic.

Needles come in bundles of two. No pine cones.

reminds me of densiflora.. which does have two needles per bundle

the whole plant blew onto the roof? ... lol

ken

I had assumed it was Austrian pine or Japanese Black Pine. It is about one story tall.

It looks more like a P. densiflora to me. Japanese Black Pine has thicker, darker needles.

Interesting. All the pines we were told were black pine had died. They looked kind of like this. How is densiflora's resistance to bark beetles and pine wilt nematode? Possibly a salt resistant black pine substitute

Is this considered a "desirable" tree?

The location is kind of terrible...it's blocking a window.

I consider it desirable. I have always admired them.

Mike

Bark can help to distinguish between P. nigra and P. densiflora. It may still be too young to be definitive, but the former will have gray bark (dead gray as described by Pinetree30), while the latter will have a reddish color a la P. sylvestris.

To me those puffy little epicormic back buds suggest P. rigida.

I'm pretty sure it's not Pinus nigra. Not green and robust enough.

a better photos are neccesary.

Hard to reach spot. What should I focus on in the next pic?