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Published In: The Gardeners Dictionary: eighth edition no. 9. 1768. (Gard. Dict. (ed. 8)) Name publication detailView in BotanicusView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

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Project Data     (Last Modified On 7/9/2009)
Status: Introduced

 

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6. Pinus virginiana Mill (scrub pine) Pl. 20i,j; Map 78

Trees to 10(–18) m tall. Trunks with orangish brown to grayish brown bark, the surface breaking into scaly plates. Twigs purplish brown, glabrous, often glaucous, turning gray to reddish brown with age. Leaves in fascicles of 2, 4–8 cm long, with 2 vascular bundles, flexible, persisting 3–4 years. Fascicle sheaths persistent. Cones 3–7 cm long, reddish brown, narrowly ovoid, symmetrical, not curved or arched, the scales not shiny, with a slender, straight, needlelike spine from a thickened base 1–3 mm long near the tip. 2n=24. Pollen shed March–April.

Introduced, escaped from plantings mostly in the Ozark and Ozark Border Divisions (eastern U.S. west to Kentucky). Widely planted for wildlife habitat and windbreaks, and as an ornamental. Escaping from cultivation along roads and in dry to mesic upland forests, less commonly at the edges of dolomite glades.

Of the pine species introduced in Missouri, this is the only one to escape from cultivation to form new populations at some distance from the originally planted trees. In its native range, which approaches southeastern Missouri in western Kentucky, scrub pine is considered a weedy species that colonizes fire-damaged areas. The trees are sometimes used for pulpwood

 


 

 
 
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