Shortleaf Pine; Pinaceae. 30m. ... Second most common pine species in the Pine Barrens, particularly in dry, sandy soils.  Needles in bunches of twos or threes on the same tree, and usually untwisted. Twigs are whitened.  Not as able to recover from fires as well as is pitch pine.
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Pinus echinata - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pinus echinata ( Shortleaf Pine ) is a species of pine native to the eastern United States from southern New York south to northern Florida, west to the extreme southeast of Kansas, and southwest...
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Shortleaf Pine, An Important Tree in North America ... Shortleaf pine (Pinus echinata) is one of the four most important commercial conifers in the southeastern United States. Depending upon locale, the species is also called shortleaf yellow, southern yellow, oldfield, shortstraw, or Arkansas soft pine...
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Shortleaf Pine, Yellow Pine, Pine,Shortleaf ... A large evergreen tree dominant on shallow rocky slopes and loamy soils of bottomlands in the eastern portion of our region. Mostly two but sometimes ... One of the leading pulpwood producing pine trees. Also one of the few pine trees with the ability to re-sprout after a fire...
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Common name: shortleaf pine ... Comment: Shortleaf pine is the state tree of Arkansas. An important timber tree, marketed with several other species as "southern yellow pine". Pinus is the ancient Latin name for the pines; echinata (prickly) may refer to the short stiff needles.
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OTHER COMMON NAMES: southern yellow pine, shortleaf yellow pine, oldfield pine, shortstraw pine, Arkansas soft pine. ... Shortleaf pine derives its scientific name from the Latin word echinus which means hedgehog. The prickle on the umbo provides the spiny "hedgehog-like" appearance of the cone.
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Loblolly Pine - Pinus taeda ... Shortleaf Pine - Pinus echinata ... Virginia Pine - Pinus virginiana...
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Shortleaf pine is found on a variety of sites in the southeastern U.S. and is intermediate in shade tolerance. The commercially important wood is used for pulpwood, plywood and construction lumber...
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Shortleaf Pine (P. echirnata, Mill.)-A slender trunk, with loose, round or pyramidal head, 8o to 120 feet high. Bark thick, cleft into square plates, with cinnamon-red scales. Young shoots violet. The shortleaf pine is short leaved only in comparison with the exceedingly long needles of P. palustris. The leaves are...
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