Size: tree, 10-30' average height at maturity
Buds: globose or ovoid, acuminate tips
Leaves: evergreen, 5 needles per fascicle, densely set, 2-3" long, serrulate margins, rather stiff, dark green outside, inner sides have bluish white stomatic lines
Twigs: densely wooly, yellow-brown or orange in first year, gray-brown or black later
Flowers: monoecious
Fruit: clustered, inconspicuous
Bark: gray-green, smooth when young, later gray-brown with scaly ridges and furrows
