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Jeffrey|ˈdʒɛfrɪ|
The name of John Jeffrey (d. ?1854), British plant-collector, used attrib. or in the possessive to designate Pinus jeffreyi, a large pine with a spreading head of drooping branches, collected by him in California in 1852.
1858G. Gordon Pinetum 198 Pinus Jeffreyii, Hort. Jeffrey's Pine... A noble tree, growing 150 feet high. 1908N. L. Britton N. Amer. Trees 25 Black Pine, Pinus Jeffreyi A. Murray, also known as Jeffrey's pine..occurs on dry volcanic mountains from southern Oregon through California. 1931Discovery XII. 92/1 The insect [sc. the pandora moth] attacks only pines, its principal hosts being western yellow pine (Pinus ponderosa) and Jeffrey pine (P. jeffreyi). 1942N. A. Bowers Cone-bearing Trees Pacific Coast 107 As compared with the Yellow Pine, the Jeffrey cones are much denser; they are shaped like the old-fashioned beehive. 1965Listener 20 May 742/3 There are a good many specimen trees of considerable age—Jeffrey's pine, the Bishop pine. 1967N. T. Mirov Genus Pinus iii. 159 Pinus jeffreyi, commonly known as ‘Jeffrey pine’, has been considered by some botanists as a variety of P. ponderosa, while other specialists maintain it to be an independent species. |