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Common forest trees of North Carolina

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  • FOREST TREES •e> •#&><*!£>-£; -e> -^%»«sif-s -e> -#^<J35>-e= -e> -tfggp-^- TABLE MOUNTAIN PINE (Pinus pungens Lambert.) THE table mountain pine, for which mountain pine is suggested as being a more appropriate name, is a rather small tree, 20 to 60 feet high, with an average diameter of 1 to 2 feet. It occurs scat tered sparingly through the higher Appalachian Mountains on the drier slopes and ridges and asso ciated with the black or pitch pine. ■<c>-mp«i TABLE MOUNTAIN PINE Oue-hntf natural size. The bark of the trunk is lighter-colored than that of the black pine, but the bark of the small branches is broken into thin loose scales. The leaves are short, 2 to 4 inches long, in clusters of two, rarely of three, bluish green, stiff, stout and more or less twisted, persisting for 2 to 3 years. The flowers are of two kinds on the same tree, the male in long loose clusters on the old twig, the female in whorls of 2 to 7 on the new growth. This pine can readily be distinguished by its heavy massive cones, 2 to 3 inches long, with very stout curved prickles, which occur usually in close groups around the twigs. The cones open when ripe and shed their seed gradually, but the empty cones remain on the tree often for many years. The wood is soft, light, not strong, resinous and coarse-grained. Along with associated species it is sometimes cut for rough lumber, and in other places for charcoal, but its chief value is for fuelwood. 12
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