Basically every single thing you could possibly utilise from conifers
- Benjamin Failor
- Jan 28, 2019
- 2 min read
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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