Editing Pinus remota (section)

==Description==
''Pinus remota'' is a small [[tree]] or large [[shrub]], reaching 3–10 m tall and with a trunk [[diameter]] of up to 40&nbsp;cm. The bark is thick, rough, and scaly. The [[leaf|leaves]] ('needles') are in mixed pairs and threes (mostly pairs), slender, 3–5&nbsp;cm long, and dull gray-green, with [[stomata]] on both inner and outer surfaces. The [[conifer cone|cones]] are squat globose, 3–5&nbsp;cm long and broad when closed, green at first, ripening yellow-buff when 18–20 months old, with only a small number of thin scales, with typically 5-12 fertile scales.

The cones open to 4–6&nbsp;cm broad when mature, holding the [[seed]]s on the scales after opening. The seeds measure 10–12&nbsp;mm long, with a very thin shell, a white [[endosperm]], and a [[vestigial]] 1–2&nbsp;mm wing; they are dispersed by the [[Woodhouse's scrub 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 able to grow into new trees.