pine question

cananyone here name me a pine tree that looses or seems to loose all of its needles during the winter and regrowes them in the spring???

 

Larch.

 

i was asking becasue i have on in my back yeard. heres a pic

 

Yep, that's a larch. The pic is too small to tell which species of larch though.

 

never seen one before

 

Far northern native species is called tamarack. Western mountains have subalpine larch and western larch. Japanese larch and European larch common in North American cultivation, where climate and soils suitable.

 

Yes, plenty of it in Banff, including along the Larch Valley Trail (hike number 43)

 

It looks a bit too broad-crowned for Tamarack Larch (L. laricina), that is usually slender-crowned. More likely European Larch (L. decidua) or Siberian Larch (L. sibirica).

 

im from nw ontario and just moved here to calgary so i see new stuff all the time, I looked it up lots of specfies to look up but i get the idea thanks guys