Pine

Pine is an evergreen conifer meaning its needles are available all year round. The cones are best harvested when young and green typically in late spring, early summer.

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Look:

Pine has needles rather than leaves, the needles of a pine tree are long, dark green and grow in groups along the branch, usually in clusters of 2, 3 or 5. Pine cones have a wooden scale like formation.

Habitat:

Pine trees thrive on heaths and are a common occurrence in forests.

Edibility:

Pine is one of our favourite ingredients in the restaurant, it's been on our menu in countless forms. It has a very herbaceous, woody, citrussy flavour and can be quite tannic making a lovely addition to our soft drinks pairing. The needles can be infused into syrups and teas and we very often have a pine kombucha on our menu. The needles can be blitzed down into liquids to give a much more intense piney hit too, one of our favourite examples of this is our pine yoghurt sorbet, a long standing Robin Wylde feature.