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Basically every single thing you could possibly utilise from conifers

The complete uses list for pines and other conifers

Chewing gum from spruce

Hats from longleaf pine (and potentially red pine)

Fiber from pine needles

Good tasting tea from pine needles (summer harvest, distilled and sweetened)

Medicinal tea (February harvest, undistilled, unsweetened)

Bandage from resin

Cord for young bark in spring

Insulation/filling/sealant/glue from pitch (and mixed with charcoal)

Lumber – and as source of income for nutrient-void former farming land)

Dye from roots

Cambium as food

Soap from resin (kills germs)

Turpentine

Rosin

Creosote from burnt pine wood and burnt pine cones, etc.

Decorations from pine cones, pine branches, etc.

Good-smelling round cup coasters from small pine wood

Pollen as health supplement for those over the age of 30 or so

Windblock

Noise barrier – fir, spruce especially

Ornamental -- evergreen

Coal strip, marsh, saltine, and clay soil regeneration

Pine flour

Pine nuts

Tannins – hemlock

Habitat for animals –decayed wood as well

Food for animals in some instances

Branches fall, or break easily – firewood

Survival shelter from branches of foliage, especially in the winter

Cones as coppice-like supply of burning material

Cones for bike basket -- has happened before, a bike basket built entirely of pine cones

Perfume – cologne – candle scent “frankincense pine”

Pulpwood – preferred tree for this

Flavour meat – juniper; pine thought to smell like rosemary

Pine cones covered in peanut butter and seed for birds

Pine honey -- insect which eats pine needles leaves sugary pine substance, bees eat it and make it into honey

Pine nut oil

Lubricant

Pine bark for roofing in shelters

Pine cones, heartwood, for starting fires

Crown when burnt in some species will regrow, ergo coppice wood

Pillow filling for thick pillows

Brooms from longleaf pine

Sunscreen from resin -- used by native Americans in Mexico

Canary Islands aquifer –purifies salt water?

Rocket fuel from Jeffrey pine

Pencil wood from juniper or cedar, I forget which

Fine wood from cedar

Sugar-like substance from sugar pine sap (supposedly best when half-burnt)

Calcium in minute amounts...

Biofuel from pine needles

Wood to repel moths that eat clothing -- juniper

Poison -cypress

Kidney cleansing medicine potentially – juniper

Pine wood good for carving, or at least one species (Pinus cembra), which Swiss carvers prefer over most other woods for its even grain

Wood for masts of boats --Pinus strobus, that is, eastern white pine

Christmas tree – includes pines (Pinus)

Juniper wood chess board -- pale and heart-woods contrast colours, ergo no stain or paint needed

Safe wood for wood spoons, etc.

Some wildfire resistant (and even semi-dependant) species

Indication of elevation etc.?

Pine resin to conceal scent when hunting

Kamchatka huts

Pine wood railroad sleepers with creosote

Cabinetry

(Stockholm?) tar for barefoot horses in the snow

Wood pavement (Nicolson pavement), made commonly from P. sylvestris (?)

Use lime water to have preserved pine wood

Charcoal

Spruce wood for violins

Sitka spruce for aircraft

Yew for cancer treatment supposedly (warning: yew is highly toxic. Do not consume without express approval from a medical doctor. Even then, I would be highly skeptical!)

Pine essential oil for cancer treatment supposedly

Yew as poison

Pignoli cookies from pine nuts

Gin flavour from juniper

Ink from rosin

 
 
 

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