Tree of the day

[btulloh]

At least it's not another zone 11 tree I've never seen before!   :D :D :D  I'm not complaining, caveman, just noticing. 

[lxskllr]

I thought the same thing. I was thinking "Huh, I thought I knew that, but it's already made the rounds. What could this one be?"  :^D

[firefighter ontheside]

JYou know when you get into the roots of this tree while doing any kind of excavating.  

[caveman]

DanG it.  Sorry for the repeat.  I really do need to go through this post and make a list so that I can check them off.  I usually double check if I am not sure if I have previously used one but this morning there was no time.  

[caveman]

Okay, let's do another tree for this afternoon.  I think several of you will recognize it.  Maybe someone will post a close up picture of the bark.


 

 

[btulloh]

We forgive you. It's quite a lot of responsibility you have every morning.

That looks kinda white, but I can get lost in the pines if I'm not careful.

[lxskllr]

Cones don't seem right to me for white, but I'm not good at tree ID, and I'm especially bad at the conifers. ERC is about the only thing I can accurately identify, and that's in the wild. Add domesticated wildcards, and even that might stump me.

[caveman]

This one has three needles per fascicle that are 2 1/2"-5" long.  White pine has five needles per fascicle.  Today's pine is found from Georgia up to New England.  

[btulloh]

Ahhhh.

It wouldn't hurt me to spend a whole month on pines. I know the ones around me, but that's a very limited variety.

[firefighter ontheside]

My guess is that it grows in Virginia.

[btulloh]

Seems that it must. Not my part though. Or at least I don't recognize it from the picture.  I'm still waiting for the experts.

[Don P]

Virginia has 2 shorter needles per fascicle.
Hmm, looking at the VT Dendro page that looks mighty rigida  though, and the range is right.
http://dendro.cnre.vt.edu/dendrology/syllabus/factsheet.cfm?ID=33

[nativewolf]

My guess is that it grows in Virginia.

It does but heck it grows in Atlanta too, heck even in NYC

[Magicman]

That is by far the SYP subspecies that I saw most often.

Oddly enough I do not have a bark picture but surely WDH has one.

Edit:  I whacked myself on this one.  :-\

[btulloh]

I guess the range is throwing me a curve. New England?

[btulloh]

Echinata

[btulloh]

Didn't know they grew that far north. Apparently they do.

[caveman]

DonP got it.  Pitch Pine, (Pinus rigida).  

MM:  These cones look a lot squattier than the ones of the trees that I assumed you spend most of your time sawing.  The needles should be a bit shorter too. 

The only three needle pines in my area are longleaf and loblolly.  

Did someone want a month of pines?  That would be as bad as a month of palms.  There are so many of them.

[firefighter ontheside]

No pitch pines here in MO.

[curdog]

I always think that pitch pine cones look like someone smashed the base against their hand and flattened them out. And a lot of times I see tufts of needles coming out of the trunk,  not covering them but a few clumps up to down the trunk...

[caveman]

Good Sunday morning.  After my sassafras oops yesterday Pitch Pine saved the day.  CurDog mentioned the tufts of needles that grow out of the main trunk, a unique feature of Pitch Pine.

I have never seen today's tree actually growing.  The closest I have come to seeing it is the limb and cone cuttings pictured which were taken after the conclusion of the 2014 National FFA Forestry Contest which was held at Bernheim Forest in Kentucky that year.  I have helped unload truckloads of them starting on Thanks Giving Day throughout a lot of the next month.  We have even sawed some into boards but they came from transmission poles.

[Southside]

Fir what it's worth we have a FF member with the same first name, good American fellow. 

[tule peak timber]

DonP got it.  Pitch Pine, (Pinus rigida).  

MM:  These cones look a lot squattier than the ones of the trees that I assumed you spend most of your time sawing.  The needles should be a bit shorter too.

The only three needle pines in my area are longleaf and loblolly.  

Did someone want a month of pines?  That would be as bad as a month of palms.  There are so many of them.

Palms ? These have edible coconuts, and grow in the snow here....

 

 

[firefighter ontheside]

I have been unsuccessful at having them live in my yard, but my parents have several.  They buy rootball trees for outside Christmas trees each year and then plant them.  Not a true fir.

[caveman]

Southside was on the Douglas Fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) like the early bird.  Rob, your palm looks familiar but I do not recall what it is.