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Pinus sylvestris
Scots pine
As recorded: Pinus sylvestris L.
Plantae › Tracheophyta › Pinopsida › Pinales › Pinaceae
- Collected by
- St.John, H.
- Collector number
- 1112
- Date
- September 13, 1913
- Locality
- Sable Island - at #4 Life Saving Station
- Island
- Sable Island
- Region
- Nova Scotia, Canada
- Coordinates
- 43.9833, -59.7833
- Record type
- Preserved specimen
Where it was collected
Collected the same day
On September 13, 1913, St.John, H. also collected 3 other specimens.
Still here: Pinus sylvestris observed near this locality
This specimen was collected in 1913. Since 2000, iNaturalist observers have recorded 4 research-grade sightings in the wild within 25 km, most recently on 2022-08-14.

2022-08-14
Sable Island National Park Reserve, Beaver Lake 17, NS, CA
(c) Gregory Stroud, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

2022-06-08
Sable Island, NS, Canada
(c) mkkennedy, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

2018-03-20
Halifax Regional Municipality, NS, Canada
(c) David Bell, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

2017-09-04
Halifax, CA-NS, CA
(c) hlight, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Observations and photos from iNaturalist, shown only when openly licensed.
Cite this specimen
Pinus sylvestris. BISH 17304. Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu. GBIF occurrence 5956239025. Accessed via explore.bishopmuseum.org/specimens/bish/17304.
Record sources
- GBIF occurrence 5956239025 ↗
- Data license: CC_BY_NC_4_0
- Last harvested October 26, 2026
