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Southern Pine Trees |
September 28, 2007 |
| Larry Tucei |
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ENTS,
I've been doing some reading about White Pines and Long Leaf
Pines. Since the Longleaf is is my area I will concentrate on it for
now. What a magnificent sight they must have been prior to the de-
forestation period of the 19th century. Anyway for those who are
interested I found two good links. The first about White Pines in
Minn. The second is a description of what the Longleaf Forest would
have been like. I have seen Longleaf to around 30" and
White Pine to
36", both are beautiful trees! I will be posting about
them in the
future. The Live Oaks have my attention now, but soon I would like
to
focus on the Pines.
http://www.whitepines.org/
http://uncpress.unc.edu/chapters/earley_looking.html
Larry
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| Sept 28, 2007 |
Longleaf pine is my second favorite conifer, only
behind baldcypress.
I planted some back in 1/95 as a little experiment and have 300
container grown seedlings on order that I will be planting this
Thanksgiving week on a place I have. Always wanted a grove of
longleafs. The most beautiful, the longest lived, the most wind
firm,
and the most disease resistant of the Southern pines, to my way of
thinking.
Larry, if you wish to learn all about longleaf pine, I recommend
Looking for Longleaf, by Lawrence Earley.
Some of the very best longleaf pines historically grew in SW
Louisiana
north of Lake Ponchatrain and Southern Mississippi from roughly
Tylertown to Hattiesburg and south from there to the coast. The
big
national forest above the Mississippi coast (De Soto NF?) is full
of
longleaf pine.
Gary Smith
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