PINE

PINES SCIENTIFIC NAME

Pines are conifer trees in the genus Pinus, in the

family Pinaceae.

NAME IN OTHER LANGUAGES

Pines name in Spanish is Pino rodeno, Pino

negral or Pino Martimo.

Pines name in French is Pin.

Pines name in Basque is Pinua.

DRAWING OF THE PLANT

CLASSICAL AUTHORS

Homerus, Iliada XIII, 389; XVI, 239.

Dioscorides, I, 69, 72.

Teofrasto H.P. III, 9, 4.

Virgilio, Egloga, VII, 57.

Marcial XII, 50.

Plinio S.N.H. XVI, 38; XV, 35; XXIII, 142.

USES OF THE PLANT

Its used in repopulations forest and cultivated.

His wood advantage for materials of
constuction and cabinet-making; his resin is
used in the chamical industry.
Its an excellent tree to fix the lands and to
fertilize them.

REMEDIES

Fumes: For the affections of respiratory type,

bronchistis and asthma.
Baths: Very adapted by his emollient action,
balsamic and antirheumatic.

MYTHOLOGY

SINIS
Sinis was the second bandit to be killed by Theseus as
the hero was traveling from Troezen to Athens, in the
very same way that he had previously killed his own
victims. Theseus then slept with Sinis's daughter,
Perigune, who later bore Theseus's son, Melanippus.
Perigune later married Deioneus of Oechalia.
According to Pausanias, Sinis's pine was still alive and
known during his times.

PITYS

Pitys was an Oreiad or Dryad nymph loved by

the god Pan. She fled to escape his advances
and was transformed into a fir tree.