name: Colorado Pinyon

flavor_db_name_variants: colorado pinyon

source: foodb

status: draft

food_db_id: Colorado pinyon

id: 433

name_scientific: Pinus edulis

description: Pinus edulis, the Colorado pinyon, two-needle pinyon, or piñon pine, is a pine in the pinyon pine group whose ancestor was a member of the Madro-Tertiary Geoflora (a group of drought resistant trees) and is native to the United States. The cones are globose, 3 centimetres (1.2 in) to 5 centimetres (2.0 in) long and broad when closed, green at first, ripening yellow-buff when 18?20 months old, with only a small number of thick scales, with typically 5-10 fertile scales. The cones open to 4 centimetres (1.6 in) - 6 centimetres (2.4 in) broad when mature, holding the seeds on the scales after opening. The seeds are 10 millimetres (0.39 in) to 14 millimetres (0.55 in) long, with a thin shell, a white endosperm, and a vestigial 1 millimetre (0.039 in) - 2 millimetres (0.079 in) wing; they are dispersed by the Pinyon Jay, which plucks the seeds out of the open cones. The jay, which uses the seeds as a food resource, stores many of the seeds for later use, and some of these stored seeds are not used and are able to grow into new trees.

itis_id: 183336

wikipedia_id: Colorado_Pinyon

picture_file_name: 441.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 159557

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:33:39.000Z

legacy_id: 468

food_group: Nuts

food_subgroup: Nuts

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:42.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:05:25.000Z

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updater_id: null

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 3340

export_to_foodb: true

public_id: FOOD00433