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Common forest trees of North Carolina

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  • FOREST TREES *$p<^-s -e> -$^«3§>~<s -€> -fc^=><«§?.-£= ^b> -^=.<x^>.-e -e> •$%><£&. POND PINE (Pmws serotina Michx.) THE pond pine, also known as pocosin pine, bay pine or black-bark pine, is found in small swamps and on flat, undrained, poor, sandy, or low, peaty soils of the Coastal Plain. It averages 40 to 70 feet in height and 1 to 2 feet in diameter. The trunk is often slightly crooked and somewhat rough with knots or bulges. The tree somewhat resembles lob- POND PINE One-half natural size. l»bby pine, but can be distinguished most easily by the broader and shorter cones, and its location generally on wret or very sour lands. The leaves occur in clusters of 3, or occasionally 4, and range in length from 5 to 8 inches. They persist on the branches for 3 to 4 years. The cones, or burrs, when open are noticeably globular in outline, somewhat flattened, 2 to 2y2 inches long. Like all pines, they require two seasons for ripening, but remain closed for 1 to 2 years afterward, and persist on the branches for several years. The bark is dark red-brown and irregularly divided by shallow furrows. The wood is resinous, heavy, often coarse-grained, orange-colored, with pale yellowish, wide sapwood. It is sawed and sold without discrimination along with lumber of other southern pines. In the earlier days of lumbering this pine was not much used for lumber. It is one of the few species of pine which, following cutting or killing-back by fire, sprouts fr«m the stumps of young vigorous saplings. il
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