. Bulletin (Pennsylvania Department of Forestry), no. 11. Forests and forestry. PLATE XV. TABLE MOUNTAIN PINE. » 1. Branch with needles and terminal cluster of buds, x 5. 2. A cluster of two stiff, twisted and sharp-pointed needles, 3. New growth with two pistillate flowers, x J. 4. Branch with needles and a whorl of tliree cones, x i. 5. Lower view of a cone scale with a spine, x J. 6. Lpper view of a cone scale with two winged seeds, x 4 7 A winged seed, s i. S. A seed, natural size. X i. T8 TABLE MOUNTAIN PINE. Pinus pungens, Lambert. rOEK-Usually attains a height of 80-40 ft. with a diamet
. Bulletin (Pennsylvania Department of Forestry), no. 11. Forests and forestry. PLATE XV. TABLE MOUNTAIN PINE. » 1. Branch with needles and terminal cluster of buds, x 5. 2. A cluster of two stiff, twisted and sharp-pointed needles, 3. New growth with two pistillate flowers, x J. 4. Branch with needles and a whorl of tliree cones, x i. 5. Lower view of a cone scale with a spine, x J. 6. Lpper view of a cone scale with two winged seeds, x 4 7 A winged seed, s i. S. A seed, natural size. X i. T8 TABLE MOUNTAIN PINE. Pinus pungens, Lambert. rOEK-Usually attains a height of 80-40 ft. with a diameter of 1-2 ft but when crowded In a clofed forest stand it may attain a height of 60 ft. with a diameter of 2i-3 ft. Crown in closed stands shallow. Irregular, narrow, and round-topped. In the open the trunk is short, bearing Tr lateral branchfs. the upper ones ascending and the lower ones ^'^^^P^^-^^^^^f" ^^f^J^^! U wvered with branches to the base of the trunk so that the lower branches lie prostrate on the ground. See Fig. 48. BARK-Dark reddish-brown. i-i of an inch thick, roughened by shallow fissures into irregular pUites which peel off In thin films. TWIGS-Stout, rather brittle, at first smooth and light orange to purplish, later rather rough and dark brown. BUDS-Resinous. narrowly elliptical, bhmt-polnted, covered with overlapping brown scales. Terminal buds about i-i of an Inch long, the lateral shorter. LEAVE8-In clusters of 2 surrounded by a persistent sheath 2-4 inches ^jng "«ht blul^h^ green, stout, very stiff, more or less twisted, very sharp-pointed, tufted at the end of the branches, persisting for 2-3 years. FLOWERS-Appear In April or May. Staminate flowers occur in long, loose «;««*;"«/* *^^ base of the growth of the season; have yellow anthers. Pistillate flowers appear laterally along new growth in whorls of 2-5 or 7, and are very short and stout-stalked. M cones T;eef 6 years old and 2-3 ft. tall can be found which bear developing cones.
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