Pinus nigra subsp. nigra (4742' N 1556' E)

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2010-06-25 Lower Austria, district Neunkirchen (Gloggnitz greywacke hills, 810 m AMSL).German name: (sterreichische) SchwarzfhreThe cuts in the tree trunks you see here show that pine resin has been extracted. The method is described on this German Wiki page.Only a couple of decades ago the profession of Pecher still was practised in Lower Austria (these trees are proof of that too; actually, those cuts might even be younger than 10 years); nowadays you only see fresh cuts near Hernstein (close to the town of Bernstein, Lower Austria) where they keep up the tradition for tourists - it is no longer profitable as synthetic materials replace natural resin.Here on this place, or so it seems, it has been given up some years ago.Trees do suffer from the treatment, but they survive it all right; timber from those trees however is of minor quality.