Editing Stone pine (section)

{{Short description|Species of pine tree}}
{{Distinguish|text = [[Japanese Umbrella-pine|Japanese umbrella-pine]] or [[Pinus cembra|Swiss stone pine]]}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2021}}
{{Speciesbox
| image = Pinus pinea Wellington Botanic Gardens.jpg
| image_caption = 
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref>{{Cite iucn |title=''Pinus pinea'' |author=Farjon, A. |name-list-style=amp |page=e.T42391A2977175 |date=2013 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T42391A2977175.en |access-date=6 September 2021}}</ref>
| display_parents = 3
| genus = Pinus
| parent = Pinus subsect. Pinaster
| species = pinea
| authority = [[Carl Linnaeus|L.]]
| range_map = Pinus pinea range.svg
| range_map_caption = Distribution map
}}

The '''stone pine''', botanical name '''''Pinus pinea''''', also known as the '''Italian stone pine''', '''Mediterranean stone pine''', '''umbrella pine''' and '''parasol pine''', is a tree from the [[pine]] family (''[[Pinaceae]]''). The tree is [[native plant|native]] to the [[Mediterranean region]], occurring in [[Southern Europe]] and the [[Levant]]. The species was introduced into [[North Africa]] millennia ago, and is also naturalized in the [[Canary Islands]], [[South Africa]] and [[New South Wales]].

Stone pines have been used and cultivated for their edible [[pine nut]]s since prehistoric times. They are widespread in horticultural cultivation as [[ornamental tree]]s, planted in gardens and parks around the world. This plant has gained the [[Royal Horticultural Society]]'s [[Award of Garden Merit]].<ref name=RHSPS>{{cite web|title=''Pinus pinea''|url=http://apps.rhs.org.uk/plantselector/plant?plantid=6299|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121224035155/http://apps.rhs.org.uk/plantselector/plant?plantid=6299|url-status=dead|archive-date=24 December 2012|publisher=Royal Horticultural Society|access-date=23 July 2013}}</ref>

''Pinus pinea'' is a diagnostic species of the vegetation class ''Pinetea halepensis''.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Bonari|first1=Gianmaria|last2=Fernández-González|first2=Federico|last3=Çoban|first3=Süleyman|last4=Monteiro-Henriques|first4=Tiago|last5=Bergmeier|first5=Erwin|last6=Didukh|first6=Yakiv P.|last7=Xystrakis|first7=Fotios|last8=Angiolini|first8=Claudia|last9=Chytrý|first9=Kryštof|last10=Acosta|first10=Alicia T.R.|last11=Agrillo|first11=Emiliano|date=January 2021|editor-last=Ewald|editor-first=Jörg|title=Classification of the Mediterranean lowland to submontane pine forest vegetation|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/avsc.12544|journal=Applied Vegetation Science|language=en|volume=24|issue=1|doi=10.1111/avsc.12544|bibcode=2021AppVS..24E2544B |hdl=10400.5/21923|s2cid=228839165|issn=1402-2001|hdl-access=free}}</ref>