Monday, March 26, 2018

Virginia Pine - Pinus virginiana

Pinaceae - Pine Family
"A Year With the Trees" - Tree Number 74
Virginia Pine Tree
Pinus virginiana


Spring

Virginia Pine Tree
Virginia Pine Tree
This  tree has two needles (1.5- 2.5 inches long) per bundle, the bark is in plates that are four times as long as broad. Most of the time, there are many once-alive branches going up the bark that have not fallen off.   Notice the young cones. They are called the pollen cones.


Male Pollen cones, Virginia Pine
Male pollen cones.  Virginia Pine.
This Virginia Pine tree lives at the Asheville Botanical Gardens. www.ashevillebotanicalgardens.org

Summer

The Virginia Pine Tree

The Virginia Pine tree.
  This tree lives at Tremont in the Smoky Mountain National Park.
These needles are twisted twice.


Fall 

Virginia Pine Tree

Virginia Pine Tree
This Virginia Pine tree lives at the Botanical Gardens at Asheville.

Winter

The Virginia Pine Tree

Winter ID Tips:
needles: 2 needles per bundle, twisted yet flexible
bark: orange and brown and looks like plates are drawn in all the way up
cones: slender, sharp prickle

This Virginia Pine lives at the Asheville Botanical Gardens in Asheville, North Carolina.  http://www.ashevillebotanicalgardens.org/


Pinus virginiana
Virginia Pine Tree

There are 2 needles per bundle that are flexible and twisted. The needles are 1.5-3 inches long; they are almost stalkless and remain attached for several years.

The tree is usually 40-70 feet tall and 12-18 inches in diameter.

This tree looks scrubby or shaggy, that is why it is nicknamed, Scrub Pine. The branches on this pine may extend all the way to the ground, they remain on the trunk even when they no longer have green needles.

The Champion Virginia Pine Trees

The champion Virginia Pine Tree lives in Caroline County, Virginia. It is 108 feet high and has a circumference of 84 inches. You can read more at:
http://www.americanforests.org/big-trees/virginia-pine-pinus-virginiana/


My favorite Virginia Pine Tree

My favorite Virginia Pine tree lives at the Botanical Gardens of Asheville.
For the love of the trees,
Becky
from my journal...


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