Resin smell in wet or hot weather, very fast growth.
Susceptible to the processionary moth (Thaumetopoea pityocampa), trapping control to be organized preventively.
Large evergreen conifer cone-shaped enlarging with age, swiveling rooting then tracing. Its needles are fasciculate by 2, 15-20 cm, medium green. The bark, light gray on young branches, becomes reddish on the trunk, cracked.