Pinus strobiformis |
Pinus palustris |
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Chihuahua white pine, Mexican white pine, pino enano, Southwestern white pine |
longleaf pine |
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Habit | Trees to 30m; trunk to 0.9m diam., slender, straight; crown conic, becoming rounded to irregular. | Trees to 47m; trunk to 1.2m diam., straight; crown rounded. |
Bark | gray, aging red-brown, furrowed, with narrow, irregular, scaly ridges. |
orange-brown, with coarse, rectangular, scaly plates. |
Branches | spreading-ascending; twigs slender, pale red-brown, puberulous or glabrous, sometimes glaucous, aging gray or gray-brown, smooth. |
spreading-descending, upcurved at tips; twigs stout (to 2cm thick), orange-brown, aging darker brown, rough. |
Buds | ellipsoid, red-brown, ca. 1cm, resinous. |
ovoid, silvery white, 3–4cm; scales narrow, margins fringed. |
Leaves | 5 per fascicle, spreading to ascending-upcurved, persisting 3–5 years, 4–9cm × 0.6–1mm, straight, slightly twisted, pliant, dark green to blue-green, abaxial surface without evident stomatal lines, adaxial surfaces conspicuously whitened by narrow stomatal lines, margins sharp, razorlike and entire to finely serrulate, apex narrowly acute to short-subulate; sheath 1.5–2cm, shed early. |
(2)–3 per fascicle, spreading-recurved, persisting 2 years, 20–45cm × ca. 1.5mm, slightly twisted, lustrous yellow-green, all surfaces with fine stomatal lines, margins finely serrulate, apex abruptly acute to acuminate; sheath 2–2.5(–3)cm, base persistent. |
Pollen cones | cylindric, ca. 6–10mm, pale yellow-brown. |
cylindric, 30–80mm, purplish. |
Seed(s) | cones maturing in 2 years, shedding seeds and falling soon thereafter, pendent, symmetric, lance-cylindric before opening, broadly lance-cylindric when open, 15–25cm, creamy brown to light yellow-brown, stalks to 6cm; apophyses somewhat thickened, strongly cross-keeled, tip reflexed; umbo terminal, low. |
cones maturing in 2 years, quickly shedding seeds and falling, solitary or paired toward branchlet tips, symmetric, lanceoloid before opening, ovoid-cylindric when open, 15–25cm, dull brown, sessile (rarely short-stalked); apophyses dull, slightly thickened, slightly raised, nearly rhombic, strongly cross-keeled; umbo central, broadly triangular, with short, stiff, reflexed prickle. |
2n | =24. |
=24. |
Pinus strobiformis |
Pinus palustris |
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Habitat | Arid to moist summit elevations, montane forests | Dry sandy uplands, sandhills, and flatwoods |
Elevation | 1900–3000m (6200–9800ft) | 0–700m (0–2300ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; NM; TX; n Mexico
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AL; FL; GA; LA; MS; NC; SC; TX; VA
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Discussion | In the northern part of the range, Pinus strobiformis overlaps P. flexilis and reportedly hybridizes with it. On average P. strobiformis has longer, more slender leaves and thinner, more spreading-tipped apophyses than are found in P. flexilis, and stomatal bands are not evident on the abaxial surface of its leaves. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Pinus palustris is fire successional, with a deep taproot and a definite grass stage. It is a valued species for lumber and pulpwood and was once important for naval stores (e.g., turpentine, pine oil, tar, pitch). It is fast disappearing over much of its natural range, partly through overharvesting but especially because of difficulties in adapting it to current plantation and management techniques. Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) is the state tree of North Carolina. (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. ayacahuite var. brachyptera, P. ayacahuite var. reflexa, P. ayacahuite var. strobiformis, P. flexilis var. reflexa, P. reflexa | P. australis |
Name authority | Engelmann: in Wislizenus, Mem. Tour N. Mexico 102. (1848) | Miller: Gard. Dict., ed. 8 Pinus no. 14. (1768) |
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