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Trees of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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  • CONIFERS— evergreen trees with cones WHITE PINE "/HI fl\V TABLE-MOUNTAIN PINE FRASER FIR V/2-2V2" REDCEDAR WHITE PINE needles are a soft blue-green, and the bark on all but the largest trees is smooth and almost black. The tree is found from the lowest elevations to 5,000 feet. 5 needles/bundle. pITpH PINE needles are yellow-green and stiff. The bark is thick and rough, brown scaly plates over a reddish underbark. This pine seems to prefer open, cut-over woodlands, and dry, south-facing slopes. It is fairly common up to 5,700 feet. 3 n/b. SHORTLEAF PINE (better known as yellow pine) has bundles of both two and three needles, most often two; they are dark blue- green and flexible. This is a low elevation tree, seldom found as
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