Botanist needed

[RStar]

Yup, that's what it is.

I had one in my front yard. It was about 60 feet tall but was too close to the hous so the landlord took it out. It had a few annoying habits like when the pine cones got ripe they exploded and the seeds with a shrp end went flying everywhere. And the "leaves" dropped quite a bit year round.

Very pretty though. Mostly while they are young.