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Manila was founded in 1571, and has remained one of the most important of the Spanish colonial cities, furnishing to the world the famous Manila cheroot and tobacco, and the Manila cordage; also the finest fabrics made from the pineapple leaf, known as pinea cloth, on which elaborate embroideries are exquisitely done; and here are found
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By 1900 it was the most common street tree in Rome, constituting 35% of the urban forest; the storied Pinus pinea made up only 1%.
The Roman Roots of Gotham's London Plane Thomas J. Campanella 2011
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On the drier ridges (Monte Blanco), Halimium commutatum and H. halimifolium, rosemary Rosmarinus officinalis, lavender Lavandula stoechas, rockrose Cistus sp. and thymeThymus tomentosa grow with introduced stone pine Pinus pinea and Eucalyptus sp.
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Of special interest is the find of stone pine (Pinus pinea – Figure 3).
Macrobotany « Interactive Dig Sagalassos – City in the Clouds 2009
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Stone pine (Pinus pinea) – fragment of seed, MAC, locus 169, scale 3 mm
Macrobotany « Interactive Dig Sagalassos – City in the Clouds 2009
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Stone pine (Pinus pinea) constitutes important forests of certain coastal sand dunes, for example at Maremma Natural Park.
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Cork oak (Quercus suber) and stone pine (Pinus pinea) form important forest stands in the siliceous substrates of the easternmost extreme, near the Mediterranean Sea.
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Relict Mediterranean sclerophyllous (Quercus ilex) and dry conifer (Pinus pinea) woodlands appear in the coastal sand dunes and flatland in the Po delta, near Ravenna.
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The coastal stone pine woodlands (Pinus pinea), associated with sand dunes, are very valuable ecosystems from both socio-economic (sustainable management of pine nut collection is an important income-generating activity for rural economies) and conservation point of view (mainly soil stabilization and biodiversity preservation).
Southwest Iberian Mediterranean sclerophyllous and mixed forests 2008
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The stone pine (Pinus pinea) and maritime pine (Pinus pinaster), both well adapted to sand and siliceous rocky substrates, are dominant on sandy soils such as the North Castile inland sand dunes of the Iberian plateaus, mainly in the northern part of the ecoregion.
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