Tree to 25 m tall with a broad round crown. Bark purplish brown to grey-brown, narrowly fissured. Winter buds 5–10 mm long, not resinous; scales persistent, fringed, apically recurved. Leaves in pairs, 5–9 cm long, dull, grey-green. Female cones solitary or in clusters, stalked, pendulous, grey-brown to reddish brown, ovoid-conical, 5–11 cm long, deciduous or persisting; exposed portion of scale rounded with truncate dorsal protrusion. Seed with a well-developed wing.
MuM, Brid, VVP, VRiv, GipP, OtP, Gold, CVU, VAlp. Als naturalised WA, SA, NSW. Native in the Mediterranean region. Occasionally planted as shelter trees, Pinus halepensis has naturalised in some parts of Victoria. .
