Large evergreen tree, monoecious, up 50 m in height, of irregular shape, with the branches forming layers culminating in a generally flat top. Juvenile trees are conical-pyramidal. Trunk straight, somewhat tortuous in extreme conditions, up to 2 m in diameter. Some ancient trees that were cut down in the central Rif had trunks up to 4-5 m in diameter. Bark very fissured, blackish, but greyish in the branches and young stems. Branches rise semiperpendicularly to the trunk, \u00b1 horizontally, extended, forming an open crown, intermediate between pines and spruces. Branchlets usually straight. Leaves needle-like, semirigid, sharp, tetragonal, isolated and long in the macroblasts (25-40 mm), shorter and grouped in rosettes to form the brachyblasts (8-19 mm). Colour intensely green with white-bluish tones. Male cones born solitary, cylindrical, upright in the centre of the rosette of leaves (3-6 cm). Female cones on the same tree, also in solitary in the centre of the brachyblasts, ovoid-cylindrical, green-purple. Woody strobili (5-13 \u00d7 3-9 cm) barrel-shaped, umbilicate at the apex, with very thin and oppressed scales. 2 seeds per scale, with a large triangular wing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-11829","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n