. Common forest trees of North Carolina : how to know them; a pocket manual. Trees -- North Carolina; Trees. LOBLOLLY PINE (Pniws factZa L.) A fast-growing member of the yellow pine group, loblolly pine is a tree of the Coastal Plain, ranging southward from the southernmost county of Delaware. It is variously known locally as shortleaf pine, fox-tail pine and old-field pine. As the last name implies, it seeds up abandoned fields rapidly, particularly in sandy soils w^here the. LOBLOLLY PINE One-half natural size. water is close to the surface. It is also frequent in clumps along the borders of
. Common forest trees of North Carolina : how to know them; a pocket manual. Trees -- North Carolina; Trees. LOBLOLLY PINE (Pniws factZa L.) A fast-growing member of the yellow pine group, loblolly pine is a tree of the Coastal Plain, ranging southward from the southernmost county of Delaware. It is variously known locally as shortleaf pine, fox-tail pine and old-field pine. As the last name implies, it seeds up abandoned fields rapidly, particularly in sandy soils w^here the. LOBLOLLY PINE One-half natural size. water is close to the surface. It is also frequent in clumps along the borders of swamps and as scat- tered specimens in the swamp hardwood forests. The bark is dark in color and deeply furrowed, and often attains a thickness of as much as 2 inches on large-sized trees. The leaves, or needles, 6 to 9 inches long, are borne three in a cluster, and, in the spring, bright green clumps of them at the ends of branches give a luxuriant appearance to the tree. The fruit is a cone, or burr, about 3 to 5 inches long, which ripens in the autumn of the second year, and, during fall and early winter, sheds many seeds which, by their inch-long wings, are widely dis- tributed by the wind. The resinous wood is coarse-grained, with marked contrast, as in the other yellow pines, between the bands of early and late wood. The wood of second- growth trees has a wide range of uses where dura- bility is not a requisite, such as for building ma- terial, box shooks, barrel staves, basket veneers, pulpwood, lath, mine pror>«!, piling and Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original North Carolina. Dept. of Conservation and Development; Holmes, J. S. (John Simcox), 1868-1958. Chapel Hill, N. C. : North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey
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