Last month, my husband and I could visit his family north of Santa Barbara County. I was super excited because we could stop by Carpinteria and check out the largest Torrey Pine tree in the world! The tree even has a formal name- the Wardholme Torrey Pine.
It may seem a bit dramatic, but I gasped when we approached the tree! You can not deny the presence of this giant.
Let’s take a look close and personally, shall we?
Important Information
- Scientific Name
- Inland Population- Pinus torreyana
- Santa Rosa Island- Pinus torreyana var. insularis
- Habitat
- coastal sage scrub
- chaparral
- Endangered
- One of the rarest pine trees in the world as it only grows naturally in two places in Southern California.
- A small strip of the coastline in Del Mar and La Jolla
- Santa Rosa Island, off the coast of Santa Barbara County
- Very slow-growing and can live up to 100 years
- Distinguished by the needles on the branches being in bunches of five
- Six-inch (15 cm) pinecones
Map- 5100 Carpinteria Ave, Carpinteria, CA 93013
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