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  Pine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pines are coniferous trees of the genus Pinus, in the family Pinaceae.
The bark of a pine in Tecpan, Guatemala.
Pines are commercially among the most important of species used for timber and wood pulp in temperate and tropical regions of the world.
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 Pine - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-01)
Pines are mostly monoecious, having the male and female cones on the same tree, though a few species are sub-dioecious with individuals predominantly, but not wholly, single-sex.
Pine needles are sometimes eaten by some Lepidoptera species including Pine Processionary, Bordered White (also known as Pine Looper), Pine Beauty and Scalloped Hazel, and also the Symphytan species Pine Sawfly.
Pines are commercially among the most important of species used for timber in temperate and tropical regions of the world.
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 Eastern White Pine
White pine also grows on fine sandy loams and silt-loam soils with either good or impeded drainage when there is no hardwood competition during the establishment period-as on old fields and pastures, bums, and blowdowns.
The growth of white pine in plantations in eastern Tennessee was found to decrease with increased plasticity of the B horizon (71).
Also, white pine is damaged by deer browsing; ice and snow, which often cause limb and stem breakage; sulfur dioxide in stack gases resulting from large scale burning of coal and oil refining; fluorine gas from brick kilns; atmospheric ozone; and sea-salt spray (11,26,33,58).
www.tnloghomes.com /process/ewp.shtml   (7226 words)

  
 botany/pinus
Pine trees are also tapped in several parts of the world, such as western France, the southeastern U.S., and the Himalayas, for the purpose of their resin, which when distilled provides turpentine and resin.
Pines intended to grow in the forest should be set in their positions when quite small, from 9 to 12 inches high.
Pines usually form straggly roots and it's difficult to dig them up with a good soil ball, but this is very important to successful transplanting of all but very small plants.
www.botany.com /pinus.html   (1351 words)

  
 Southwestern White Pine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-01)
The Southwestern White Pine of the Southern Rocky Mountains
The Southwestern or Mexican White pine grows in New Mexico and southwestern Colorado, especially along the eastern base of the San Juan Mountains, in spruce forests and along the banks of streams in the montane zone, up to an elevation of 9900 feet.
This pine was once considered a variety of the Limber pine.
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 Mexican War - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Mexican War
In Mexico US forces defeated the Mexican army, led by President Antonio López de Santa Anna, in a series of battles culminating in the occupation of Mexico City in May 1847.
California was admitted to the union in 1850 under a constitution banning slavery, but under the Compromise of 1850 the other territories were organized without any regulation in respect of slavery, leaving it up to their settlers to vote on whether or not there should be ownership of slaves.
Witness the present Mexican war, the work of comparatively a few individuals using the standing government as their tool; for in the outset, the people would not have consented to this measure.
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 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Pine
Pines are divided into three subgenera, based on cone, seed and leaf characters:
Pine plantations can be at risk of fire damage because pine resin is flammable to the point of a tree being explosive under some conditions.
A tea made by steeping young, green pine needles in boiling water is delicious and high in vitamins A and C. References
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This pine is remarkable in its appearance in the forests on account of the long outward and downward sweep of the branches, the first of which often arise at loo ft. above the ground.
The pine forests, which cover large tracts of sandy soil in the Lake States, are composed of varying mixtures of P. Strobus, P. resinosa, and P. Banksiana.1 On poor dry sand the two latter species outgrow and supplant the former, while on moist deep sand P. Strobus is the more vigorous.
The white pine grows naturally on all kinds of soil, and varies very much in its habit according to the soil and surroundings, but flourishes best in a deep, moist sandy loam, and in land which, being covered with a thick growth of moss, never dries in summer.
fax.libs.uga.edu /QK488xE4/1f/trees_of_britain_and_ireland_vol_5.txt   (11561 words)

  
 Species:
Southwestern white pine may be present as a minor component in riparian community types in south-central Arizona and in the montane riparian woodland zone of southwestern Colorado [9,70].
Southwestern white pine seedlings received an average overall ranking of 8.8 in trials for resistance to white pine blister rust; a score of 11 was the lowest resistance [38].
Seeds of the southwestern white pine ripen synchronously throughout a forest and overwhelm the harvesting efforts of predators [11,34].
www.fs.fed.us /database/feis/plants/tree/pinsto/all.html   (3820 words)

  
 WildWNC.org : Trees : Eastern White Pine
Embryo dormancy is common in white pine, and for nursery sowing, stratification of seeds for 60 days at 1° to 5° C (33° to 41° F) is recommended (39).
White pine does not reproduce vegetatively under natural conditions (31).
White pine is intermediate in shade tolerance, and vegetative competition is a major problem (60).
www.wildwnc.org /trees/Pinus_strobus.html   (6787 words)

  
 Pinus classification - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There are three main subgenera of Pinus, the subgenus Strobus (White pines or soft pines), the subgenus Ducampopinus (Pinyon, Bristlecone and Lacebark pines), and the subgenus Pinus (Typical pines, or yellow or hard pines).
In general, cone and cone scale and seed morphology and leaf fascicle and sheath morphology are emphasized and this seems to result in a classification that has subsections of pines that are understandable and usually readily recognized by their general appearance.
Diploxylon pines tend to have harder timber and more amounts of resin than the haploxylon pines.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pinus_classification   (269 words)

  
 Pinus; Pines
Pines are among the oldest terrestrial plants in the world, first appearing more than 60,000,000 years ago during the Mesozoic era and emerging as highly successful competitors amongst the world's flora (Everett, 1981).
Pines exhibit the greatest diversity of habitat and distribution of the the needle-type evergreens, being scattered throughout the Northern Hemisphere from the Arctic Circle to Guatemala, the West Indies, North Africa, and Malayan Archipelago (Dirr, 1975).
Pines are generally large trees, with only a few dwarfish or shrubby species.
www.discoverlife.org /nh/tx/Plantae/Gymnospermae/Pinaceae/Pinus   (529 words)

  
 number 8 May 30, 1997   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-01)
White pine blister rust was introduced to the continent in 1910 through a contaminated shipment of eastern white pine seedlings from Europe.
Currently whitebark pine is in a period of significant decline due to attack by white pine blister rust, advancing forest succession, loss of early seral stages for regeneration and exposure to the threat of attack by mountain pine beetle.
Whitebark pine populations are being severely reduced due to the combined effects of white pine blister rust and advancing succession.
www.nrmsc.usgs.gov /nutnotes/number8.htm   (11745 words)

  
 UCONN IPM:Nursery Crops:Japanese Black Pine
A pine affected by this pest complex will show a yellowing or rusty browning throughout the entire tree before the foliage begins to die and needles begin to drop, often within the year.
Japanese fl pines are most susceptible to either of these pest complexes if they are older than 15 years of age or are growing in stressful sites, such as near the coast.
No Rhode Island nurseries are currently growing Southwestern white pine, but there are several nurseries in Pennsylvania, which have grown it for a long time, both as a Christmas tree and for ornamental use.
www.hort.uconn.edu /ipm/nursery/htms/jblkpine.htm   (1009 words)

  
 Cronartium ribicola, the white pine blister rust   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-01)
"White pine blister rust, caused by the rust fungus Cronartium ribicola, is a textbook example of a heteroecious rust fungus.
White pine blister rust is now widely found in northeastern United States, the Lake States, and the West.
In was introduced into British Columbia in 1910 and has spread from there throughout most white pine regions of Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Oregon, and California.
www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de /b-online/earle/pi/pin/blstrust.htm   (284 words)

  
 Welcome to White Pine Press
This reprint of a White Pine Press classic brings together an astonishing range of work from the turn of the century to the present.
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, White Pine Press has combined two of Marjorie Agosín's most enduring books of poetry, Zones of Pain and Circles of Madness: Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, both of which are out of print, into one volume.
The first English-language gathering of the voices of Mexican women, most of whom began to publish in the 1960's when an emerging middle class supported a boom in Mexican letters.
www.whitepine.org /a.htm   (1870 words)

  
 Texas Native Plants Database   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-01)
Southwestern White Pine, Limber Pine, Border Limber Pine, Border White Pine, Mexican White Pine
Southwestern white pine is one of the loveliest and rarest Texas pines, with bluish-green needles and light silvery younger bark.
Additional Comments: True limber pine, P. flexilis, occurs in the northern highlands of New Mexico.
aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu /ornamentals/natives/pinusstrobiformis.htm   (119 words)

  
 Girdling roots on pine hybrid - Conifers Forum - GardenWeb   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-01)
I knew my apparently healthy, 4.5' E. white x Mexican white pine graft (originally potted) had some root-circling, but after some finger & toothbrush digging, a network of circling roots was exposed.
And hope I didn't kill my hybrid W. pine (E. white pine is pretty tough in this regard).
But I've literally hand-pulled (w/o any tools) 3' E. white pines from very thin, rocky soil, transplanted & they survived.
forums.gardenweb.com /forums/load/conif/msg1011234827124.html   (1088 words)

  
 Mexican Mercado Furniture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-01)
Equipal furniture is often found in middle-class, traditional-minded Mexican homes.
Most visitors to Mexico consider Colonial-style furniture as being "typically Mexican," though Mexicans refer to it as Spanish.
New Mexican Furniture, 1600-1940 : The Origins, Survival, and Revival of Furniture Making in the Hispanic Southwest
www.mexicanmercados.com /crafts/muebles.htm   (162 words)

  
 Backpacking Destinations - Places - :Chiricahua Wilderness Area   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-01)
Here is some of the most starkly spectacular geology of the southwestern United States, rising to a climax on Chiricahua Peak at 9,797 feet.
You'll find a wide variety of elevations, slope orientations and moisture that give rise to diverse plants such as cactus and fine stands of ponderosa pine, Mexican white pine, Apache pine, Chiricahua pine, Douglas fir, Engelmann spruce, white fir, aspen, juniper, pinyon, madrone and oak.
Wildlife include the peccary, coatimundi and a plentiful supply of hungry fl bears.
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 LOVETT PINETUM SPECIES CENSUS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-01)
An asterix (*) indicates that the pines are well established, a arrow-up sign (^) indicates established trees with serious problems and a pound (#) sign indicates that the pines have planted within the past 30 months (some with serious zonal denial).
[pseudostrobus Smooth-bark Mexican White pine (died winter of 1993-4)]
[maximartinezi Big Cone Martinez pine (died winter of 1997-8)]
www.lovett-pinetum.org /census.htm   (119 words)

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