Pinus pungens |
Pinus attenuata |
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hickory pine, mountain pine, prickley pine, table mountain pine |
knobcone pine |
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Habit | Trees to 12m; trunk to 0.6m diam., straight to crooked, erect to leaning, poorly self-pruning; crown irregularly rounded or flattened. | Shrubs or trees to 24m; trunk to 0.8m diam., usually straight; crown mostly narrowly to broadly conic. |
Bark | red- to gray-brown, irregularly checked into scaly plates. |
purple-brown to dark brown, shallowly and narrowly fissured, with irregular, flat, loose-scaly plates, on upper sections of trunk nearly smooth. |
Branches | horizontally spreading; twigs slender, orange- to yellow-brown, aging darker brown, rough. |
ascending; twigs slender, red-brown. |
Buds | ovoid to cylindric, red-brown, 0.6–0.9cm, resinous. |
ovoid to ovoid-cylindric, dark red-brown, aging darker, ca. 1.5cm, resinous; scale margins fringed, apex attenuate. |
Leaves | 2(–3) per fascicle, spreading or ascending, persisting 3 years, 3–6(–8)cm × 1–1.5mm, twisted, deep yellow-green, all surfaces with fine stomatal lines, margins harshly serrulate, apex acute to short-acuminate; sheath 0.5–1cm, base persistent. |
3 per fascicle, spreading or ascending, persisting 4–5 years, (8–)9–15(–20)cm × (1–)1.3–1.8mm, straight or slightly curved, twisted, yellow-green, all surfaces with fine stomatal lines, margins serrulate, apex abruptly conic-subulate; sheath (1–)1.5–2cm, base persistent. |
Pollen cones | ellipsoid, ca. 15mm, yellow. |
ellipsoid-cylindric, 10–15mm, orange-brown. |
Seed(s) | cones maturing in 2 years, variably serotinous, mostly whorled, downcurved, asymmetric, ovoid before opening, broadly ovoid when open, (4–)6–10cm, gray- to pale red-brown, nearly sessile or on stalks to 1cm; apophyses thickened, diamond-shaped, strongly keeled, elongate, mammillate at cone base abaxially; umbo central, a stout, curved, sharp claw. |
cones maturing in 2 years, serotinous, long-persistent, remaining closed for 20 years or more, or opening on burning, in whorls, hard and heavy, very asymmetric, lanceoloid before opening, ovoid-cylindric when open, 8–15cm, yellow- or pale red-brown, stalks to 1cm; apophyses toward outside base increasingly elongate, mammillate or raised-angled-conic, downcurved near base, scarcely raised on branchlet side, rhombic; umbo central, low-pyramidal, sharp, upcurved. |
2n | =24. |
=24. |
Pinus pungens |
Pinus attenuata |
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Habitat | Dry, mostly sandy or shaly uplands, Appalachians and associated Piedmont | Fire successional on dry slopes and foothills of Sierra Nevada and the Cascade and Coast ranges |
Elevation | 500–1350m (1600–4400ft) | 300–1200m (1000–3900ft) |
Distribution |
DE; GA; MD; NC; NJ; PA; SC; TN; VA; WV
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CA; OR; Mexico in Baja California
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Discussion | Pinus pungens is a scrub pine and is too small and knotty to be much utilized except for pulpwood and firewood. Its common name refers to a general type of landform, not to a specific, named mountain. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Pinus attenuata, mostly a chaparral species, bears cones at an early age. Its seed crops are heavy, and a hot fire permits the seeds to be released. It forms hybrids with P. muricata and P. radiata. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 2. | FNA vol. 2. |
Parent taxa | Pinaceae > Pinus | Pinaceae > Pinus |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | P. tuberculata | |
Name authority | Lambert: Ann. Bot. (London) 2: 198. (1805) | Lemmon: Mining Sci. Press 64: 45. (1892) |
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