The park's symbol is the Bosnian Pine, which here has one of its last remaining growing areas in Italy.

Latter endemic community rich in submediterranean species has evolutional parallels with Bosnian Pine communities.

Bosnian Pine (Pinus heldreichii)

These mountains are home to a rare Bosnian Pine variety, and are included in the Pollino National Park.

It grows in the wild on grassy slopes at 1500 to 1700 meters, in sunny or semi-shaded locations within Bosnian Pine communities.

There are forests of black pine and beech, and in the higher parts, Bosnian Pine (Pinus leucodermis).

The park protects the largest forests of Macedonian and Bosnian Pine in the country as well as many rare and endemic species.

Bosnian Pine is a popular ornamental tree in parks and large gardens, giving reliable steady though not fast growth on a wide range of sites, and with a very neat, conical crown.

The Bosnian Pine (Pinus heldreichii, synonym P. leucodermis; family Pinaceae) is a species of pine native to mountainous areas of the Balkans and southern Italy.

It was widely considered endemic in southern Italy, but is now also known in the western Balkans (former Yugoslavia), a distribution fairly closely matched by Pinus heldreichii (Bosnian Pine).

Much of the area is forested, with the best conifer woods in Bulgaria, holding important populations of the Balkan endemic species Macedonian Pine, Bosnian Pine and Bulgarian Fir.

Above the Beech and Fir-Beech forests are scattered open stands of pure Dinaric calcareous Silver Fir forests and Bosnian Pine with deep-purple young cones set among stiff light-green needles.

The low part of the mountain is rich in European Black Pine, while the Bosnian Pine grows at over 1,800 m above sea level, making Slavyanka the place with the highest concentraction of the species in the Balkans.

Woods dominated by chestnut, beech and the rare Bosnian Pine, which is the park's symbol, cover especially the highest peaks; animal species include the Italian Wolf, Eagle Owl, Roe Deer and the rare Golden Eagle.

Bosnian Pine (Pinus heldreichii)

Businský, R. Beitrag zur Taxonomie und Nomenklatur von Pinus heldreichii.

The Bosnian Pine (Pinus heldreichii, synonym P. leucodermis; family Pinaceae) is a species of pine native to mountainous areas of the Balkans and southern Italy.

Amongst the various trees of the park, notable species include Abies alba, Acer lobelii, Fagus sylvatica, Pinus heldreichii, Pinus nigra, Taxus baccata and others.

Conifers like the snakeskin pine Pinus heldreichii are located on carbonate rocks and the Macedonian pine Pinus peuce of silicates are typical elements of the endemic Balkan flora.