What is "pinus contorta"

lodgepole pine \lodgepole pine\ n. A tall, narrow 2-needled pine ( Pinus contorta) of the coastal Northwestern U. S., having a red to yellow-brown bark fissured into small squares and bearing egg-shaped cones.

Syn: shore pine, lodgepole pine, spruce pine, Pinus contorta.

Pinus contorta, with the common names lodgepole pine and shore pine, and also known as twisted pine, and contorta pine, is a common tree in western North America. It is common near the ocean shore and in dry montane forests to the subalpine, but is rare in lowland rain forests. Like all pines (member species of the genus Pinus), it is an evergreen conifer.