Ponderosa Pines

Ponderosa Pines have a strange smell.It is considered to smell like baking cookies. The Ponderosa Pines are protected by a bark of armor. If it is struck by lighting the sap would splash everywhere and the tree would not burn. That is very good. Ponderosa Pines have a huge swath of yellow bark. The younger trees are called black jack pines. It is called that because it has black bark. The older trees are called yellow pines they have yellow bark. Both of the trees are really the Ponderosa Pines.