The Sugar Pine is one of the tallest and most massive Pine Trees in the world, capable of reaching nearly 80 meters in height. It belongs to the family Pinaceae, encompassing over 200 different species known. Its common name derives from the sweet resin that it produces, followed by the description of John Muir as the “King of the Conifers”. The scientific name is given by David Douglas in honor to the Botanist Aylmer Bourke Lambert.

The Sugar Pine grows exceptionally high with a broad trunk, followed by various branches that grow horizontally, ever so slightly downwards, the leaves (or needles as they’re also known), grow in fascicles of five, followed by what are perhaps the longest pine cones known, the cones can range from 10 to 50 centimeters in length.

In Jurassic Park, the Sugar Pine is one of the many Coniferous Trees present exceptionally at Isla Sorna, being one of the many flora species present to shape up the temperate forests that cover most of the East of the island. The tree would be primarily seen at the Game Trail, a specific locality at the Northeast where Ingen Hunters tracked down various dinosaurs to bring to San Diego. The trail was vast and open, with Sugar Pines being abundant at the edges, some dinosaurs would eventually run towards the forest to escape from the hunters, while a pair of Mamenchisaurus would leave the forest.