Pinus elliottii |
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slash pine |
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Habit | Trees to 30m; trunk to 0.8m diam., straight to contorted; crown conic, becoming rounded or flattened. | ||||
Bark | orange- to purple-brown, irregularly furrowed and cross-checked into large, irregularly rectangular, papery-scaly plates. |
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Branches | spreading to ascending; twigs stout (to ca. 1cm thick), orange-brown, aging darker brown, rough-scaly. |
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Buds | cylindric, silvery brown, 1.5–2cm; scale margins fringed. |
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Leaves | 2 or 3 per fascicle, spreading or ascending, persisting ca. 2 years, 15–20(–23)cm × 1.2–1.5mm, straight, slightly twisted, pliant, yellow- to blue-green, all surfaces with stomatal lines, margins finely serrulate, apex abruptly acute to acuminate; sheath 1–2cm, base persistent. |
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Pollen cones | cylindric, 30–40mm, purplish. |
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Seed(s) | cones maturing in 2 years, falling the year after seed-shed, single or in pairs, symmetric, lance-ovoid before opening, ovoid or ovoid-cylindric when open, (7–)9–18(–20)cm, light chocolate brown, on stalks to 3cm; apophyses lustrous (as if varnished), slightly raised, strongly cross-keeled; umbo central, depressed-pyramidal, with short, stout prickle. |
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Pinus elliottii |
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Distribution |
AL; FL; GA; LA; MS; SC [Introduced in subtropical and warm temperate areas worldwide]
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Discussion | Varieties 2 (native only in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 2. | ||||
Parent taxa | Pinaceae > Pinus | ||||
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Synonyms | P. heterophylla, P. taeda var. heterophylla | ||||
Name authority | Engelmann: Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis 4: 186, plates 1–3. (1880) | ||||
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