LOBLOLLY PINE; OLD- FIELD PINE (Pinus Toeda, Linn.) 

 80 to 100 feet. Tall, deep-rooted tree, narrowly pyramidal, of 

 very quick growth. Bark bright reddish brown, scaly, with 

 broad ridges. Branchlets yellow-brown. Wood soft, weak, 

 very resinous, coarse-grained, brown, used in building ships, 

 docks, cars, and houses. Excellent fuel. Leaves in 3's, 

 slender, stiff, twisted, pale green, glaucous, falling during 

 their third season; length, 6 to 9 inches. Thin basal sheath 

 close. Flowers March- April; staminate in crowded spikes, 

 yellow, with abundant pollen: pistillate lateral, 1 to 3 oval, 

 scaly cones, below tip of new shoot. Fruit ovate-oblong cone, 

 3 to 5 inches long, reddish brown, with thin scales bearing 

 short, stout spines; seed triangular, with long, thin, shining 

 wing; 2 under each scale, shed irregularly; empty cones per- 

 sisting another year. Dist. : New Jersey to Florida and Texas 

 following the coast; inland from the Carolinas to Arkansas 

 and Louisiana. 



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