A N F Keys
1 Photosynthetic leaves mostly tufted and helically alternate on short shoots, leaves to 55 mm long; mature seed cones erect on branches, cone scales not spreading to release seeds but instead shattering from central axis .. Cedrus deodara
1' Photosynthetic leaves 2 per "fascicle" (= deciduous short shoots), fascicles arranged helically alternate, leaves (40−)65−110 mm long; mature seed cones spreading on branches, cone scale widely separated to release seeds, persistent .. Pinus halepensis subsp. halepensis [pics]
The text of the above keys used with permission from
A Naturalist's Flora of the Santa Monica Mountains and Simi Hills, California
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Barry A. Prigge and Arthur C. Gibson
2013