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  WildWNC.org : Trees : Virginia Pine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Virginia pine generally grows throughout the Piedmont and at lower elevations in the mountains from central Pennsylvania southwestward to northeastern Mississippi, Alabama, and northern Georgia.
The principal forest insects that cause significant damage to Virginia pine are the southern pine beetle (Dendroctonus frontalis), Ips spp., and pine sawflies, the Virginia pine sawfly (Neodiprion pratti pratti) and the redheaded pine sawfly (N. lecontei).
Heritabilities and correlations of the cortical monoterpenes of Virginia pine (Pinus uirginiana Mill.).
wildwnc.org /trees/Pinus_virginiana.html   (3516 words)

  
 Plant Information Center - NC Trees - Virginia Pine
Virginia pine, also known as spruce pine or scrub pine, typically grows in the Piedmont and mountains, up to elevations of 4,500 feet.
Virginia pine needles are 11/2 to 3 inches long, stout, yellow-green and usually twisted.
Virginia pine is a small tree, 50 to 80 feet tall, with a trunk that rarely reaches more than 8 to 14 inches in diameter.
www.ibiblio.org /pic/NCTrees/virginiapine.htm   (235 words)

  
 Natural Vegetation of Virginia
Pines occur primarily as members of early successional communities on abandoned farmland, but on dry sites and on soils with low nutrient content—such as those exhausted from poor agricultural practices, pines may persist.
Virginia's bogs occur primarily in the New River drainage section of the Blue Ridge and on Massanutten, Clinch, and Salt Pond mountains in the Ridge and Valley.
Virginia's coastal wetlands grade from saltmarshes secured behind the barrier islands to brackish marshes bordering Chesapeake Bay and edging the estuarine stretches of streams entering the Bay, to upstream freshwater marshes still influenced by the ebb and flow of the tides.
www.runet.edu /~swoodwar/CLASSES/GEOG202/veg.htm   (3185 words)

  
 Ohio Trees - Virginia Pine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Virginia Pine, an evergreen conifer, is native to areas on either side of and including the Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States.
Virginia Pine is often seen as a leaning tree at maturity.
Virginia Pine has an abundance of first year, second year, and persistent opened cones in its canopy, the latter of which remain on the branches for years.
www.dnr.state.oh.us /forestry/trees/pine_virginia.htm   (585 words)

  
 Virginia Pine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Virginia Pine are small to medium-sized pine trees, growing up to 60 feet.
Virginia Pines are a favorite of woodpeckers, because of the soft wood in older trees.
Virginia Pine are widely used for pulpwood (to make paper).
www.fcps.k12.va.us /StratfordLandingES/Ecology/mpages/virginia_pine.htm   (230 words)

  
 National Christmas Tree Association: ARIZONA CYPRESS
Virginia pine is considered to be a small to medium sized tree.
Virginia pine is almost exclusively propagated through seed germination.
Virginia pine Christmas trees are available on both choose and cut farms, and retail lots.
www.realchristmastrees.org /treetype/virginia.html   (476 words)

  
 John Bailey: Virginia Pine
The Virginia pine grows all throughout the Piedmont and in lower elevations in the mountains from central Pennsylvania south-westward to northeast Mississippi, Alabama and northern Georgia.
The Virginia Pine is also found in the Atlantic Coastal Plain as far north as New Jersey and Long Island, NY, and extends westward in scattered areas into Ohio, southern Indiana, and also Tennessee (Virginia Pine, ncsu.edu).
The annual precipitation rate in the native range of the Virginia pine averages between 35 and 55 inches annually and is fairly well distributed throughout the year.
www.runet.edu /~jbailey2/bio335project/virginiapine.html   (406 words)

  
 Virginia (Scrub) Pine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Virginia pine is in some ways esthetically similar to the Japanese Black Pine, but has smaller needles and does not grow as thick a trunk.
The Virginia pine is fast-growing, so repotting should be relatively frequent, at least every 2-3 years for young (less than 10 years) trees and every 3-5 years for older ones.
For this reason, pines and other conifers should never be bare-rooted, unless steps are taken to re-introduce the fungus to the repotted plant, such as making a slurry (thin mud) of the old soil and pouring it over the newly potted soil.
www.bonsai-bci.com /species/virginia-pine.html   (827 words)

  
 Ohio Trees, Bulletin 700-00, Pinus – Pine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Pines are evergreen trees with spreading branches that are often arranged in whorls.
The red pine is a large forest tree of the northern pine areas and is associated with the white pine.
Scrub pine is a bushy tree with slender, horizontal, and somewhat pendulous branches.
ohioline.osu.edu /b700/b700_19.html   (3180 words)

  
 Hiker's Notebook: Virginia Pine
For example, Virginia pine was evaluated on a 50 year rotation against shortleaf and loblolly pines in areas with shallow soils and found to outperform them by over 4,000 board feet per acre.
Virginia pine is also an important habitat and food source for a number of birds and mammals.
Virginia pine is not well adapted to survive fire, as it has thin bark and shallow roots.
www.mwrop.org /W_Needham/VirginiaPine_060209.htm   (701 words)

  
 Nearctica - Native Conifers of North America - Pinus virginiana
The apical spines of the cone scales are not as well developed in Virginia Pine as in Table Mountain Pine and the cones of Virginia Pine are symmetric, not oblique at the base.
Measurements: Virginia Pine is a small to medium size tree and is about 30 to 40 feet in height and 1 to 1.5 feet in diameter.
Native Range: Virginia Pine generally grows throughout the Piedmont and at lower elevations in the mountains from central Pennsylvania southwestward to northeastern Mississippi, Alabama, and northern Georgia.
www.nearctica.com /trees/conifer/pinus/Pvirgin.htm   (298 words)

  
 Pine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
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.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pine   (1347 words)

  
 Virginia Naturally - Natural Resource Education Guide
Pine forests, both natural and plantation, are the next two most common forest types and occur mostly on the coastal plain and piedmont.
In pine plantations, where trees are intentionally planted by man, the most common type is loblolly, with white pine sometimes planted in the western part of the state.
Most of Virginia ’s paper industry is located on the coastal plain and piedmont, where the supply of “yellow” pine (loblolly, Virginia, and shortleaf) is the greatest.
www.vanaturally.com /guide/forests.html   (1783 words)

  
 Virginia Pine
Also known as Jersey pine and spruce pine, it does so well in reforesting abandoned and cut over lands that it has become a principal source of pulpwood and lumber in the southeast.
Virginia pine is commonly a small or medium-sized tree but a record tree has been measured 31.8" in diameter and 114' tall.
Included in the cabin rental is one dock slip and the use of the Water Toys.
www.sandypinesresort.com /Index.cfm?pageID=40   (212 words)

  
 VIRGINIA PINE
Virginia pine is pollinated by the wind and it is possible for it to self pollinate.
The seeds of Virginia pine are dispersed in October.
The MOR (dry) of Virginia pine is 13,000 psi.
www.forestry.auburn.edu /sfnmc/class/ae.html   (1340 words)

  
 Endangered Species in Virginia
Virginia has native plants and animals, species that were here before the arrival of Europeans.
Virginia Round- leaf Birch Recovery Plan [warning: 4.5MB file] requires "Establishment of 10 self-sustaining populations, defined of the basis of having each produced through natural regeneration 500-1000 individuals > 2 m tall" before the round leaf birch species can be "delisted"completely.
Virginia identifies "rare" species in the state, in addition to those species officially listed as "threatened" or "endangered" by the Federal government.
www.virginiaplaces.org /natural/especies.html   (1405 words)

  
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Pine Hill Farm rests on a hill between the mighty Ohio and Kanawha rivers.
Pine Hill Farm is the perfect location for raising registered full blood Boer goats, whose lineage includes Tsjaka, Ubora, and Mzuri.
Pine Hill Farm is also home to a variety of other pets that include Pygmy goats, rabbits, chickens, ducks, dogs and cats.
pinehillfarm.homestead.com   (95 words)

  
 Pines of North Carolina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Another pine which evidently grows very well across the piedmont and the mountains of the state is the Virginia Pine.
The dominate native pine in Cabarrus county is the shortleaf pine although there is plenty of native Virginia pine and several stands of planted loblolly around.
Pines are a plant I associate with the south.
www.ces.ncsu.edu /cabarrus/staff/dgoforth/newsart/pine.html   (1773 words)

  
 Natural Communities of Virginia - Terrestrial System - Low-elevation Dry & Dry-Mesic Forests & Woodlands: Pine ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Pine — Oak / Heath woodlands are widespread throughout both the Ridge and Valley and Blue Ridge provinces in western Virginia.
Short-statured table-mountain pine (Pinus pungens) and pitch pine (Pinus rigida) are usually the dominants forming an open overstory, often with co-dominant chestnut oak (Quercus montana, = Quercus prinus).
The singular Virginia occurrence is characterized by dense, nearly impenetrable thickets of Catawba rhododendron (Rhododendron catawbiense), bear oak (Quercus ilicifolia), mountain-laurel (Kalmia latifolia), fl huckleberry (Gaylussacia baccata), and late lowbush blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium), with scattered emergent (but still shrub-sized) pitch pines (Pinus rigida).
www.state.va.us /dcr/dnh/ncTIIIi.htm   (865 words)

  
 PEST MANAGEMENT FOR TEXAS GROWN VIRGINIA PINE PRODUCTION
The production of Virginia pine trees for use as Christmas trees in the Texas upper coast area is a pest management challenge.
The Southern pine coneworm is a minor pest of Virginia pine, along with the pine sawyer.
Pine sawyer - Adult pine sawyer beetles are mottled brown and nearly an inch in length.
insects.tamu.edu /extension/bulletins/uc/uc-027.html   (1988 words)

  
 TreeWeb: Species Guide, Pinaceae
Pitch pine is moderately resistant to fire, but fire is both a principle agent of pitch pine mortality and the principle creator of new niches for pitch pine regeneration.
Eastern white pine is intermediate in tolerance, the most tolerant of eastern pines, and is a gap-phase species.
White pine is common in the understory of mixed hardwood forests, but is most often seen as a canopy dominant or emergent, often towering above the surrounding forest.
www.uky.edu /Projects/TreeWeb/species/pina1.htm   (2415 words)

  
 Search for Virginia pine uncovers forest's secrets
The "it" he was referring to was a 92-foot-tall spike of a Virginia pine listed as the champion for that species in the 1993 edition of "Big Trees of Pennsylvania."
The Virginia pine was one of two state champions from Allegheny County named in the book, while the other, an American elm known as the "Lone Sentinel" in Bellevue's Bayne Park, was cut down in 1998 because it was dying.
He was told the pine was on the far side of the pipeline.
www.post-gazette.com /magazine/20000806Pine6.asp   (811 words)

  
 Pine
Mature Height/Spread: White pine (Pinus strobes) reaches 50 to 80 feet in height and 20 to 40 feet in spread.
Landscape Use: Virginia pine is not very ornamental but it is valuable as a cover for dry and barren soils and it is grown for the Christmas tree industry in South Carolina.
Mature Height/Spread: Mugo pine (Pinus mugo) grows to a height of 15 to 20 feet and a width of 20 to 25 feet.
hgic.clemson.edu /factsheets/HGIC1020.htm   (1986 words)

  
 New Pitcher Plant Preserve in Virginia, USA
Longleaf pine needles are longer than other southern pines, provide a matrix of aerated fuel in the groundcover, and are both slower to decompose and have a higher resin content than other southeastern U.S. pine species.
The case for outright acquisition of a property in southern Virginia to preserve the longleaf pine-pitcher plant ecosystem is demonstrated by several factors.
Longleaf pine is an associate species of yellow pitcher plant and is a keystone species in fire maintained ecosystems.
www.pitcherplant.org /papers/JosephPines2.htm   (1242 words)

  
 National Christmas Tree Association: Virginia Pine
As with other pines, these show a tendency to self pruning when grown with competition from other trees.
Virginia pine has been the staple for the Christmas tree industry in the south since its inception.
Because the older wood is softened by fungal decay, Virginia pine provides excellent nesting sites for woodpeckers.
www.christmastree.org /trees/virginia.cfm   (480 words)

  
 Virginia Pine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Virginia pine is found in greatest abundance in the upper
Even with age, the fissures in the bark are so shallow as to give a somewhat smooth appearance to the trunk of the tree.
Virginia Department of Forestry programs are open to all people regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or disability.
www.dof.virginia.gov /trees/pine-va.shtml   (268 words)

  
 WildWNC.org : Trees : Table Mountain Pine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Table Mountain pine is unevenly distributed; its range extends from the Northern Appalachians in central Pennsylvania southwest to eastern West Virginia and southward into the Southern Appalachians, ending on the steep western edge of the mountains of North Carolina and east Tennessee (1,2,6,9,10,11,19,25,29).
Of the three dry-site pines, Table Mountain pine roots are most affected by temperature; it grows a longer root than Virginia pine only between 16° to 28° C (61° to 82° F); pitch pine seedlings have the shortest roots at all temperatures (31).
The prominent epicormic sprouts protruding from the bark of pitch pine are absent in Table Mountain pine; also absent are the dormant buds that occur along the bole and branches of pitch pine-an adaptation which allows recovery from defoliation.
www.wildwnc.org /trees/Pinus_pungens.html   (4426 words)

  
 Virginia Pine - PA DCNR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
GENERAL: Also called Scrub pine, this small tree attains a height of 30'-40' on sandy or poor rocky soils of barrens and ridgetops.
Virginia pine is a southern species that reaches its northern limit in Pennsylvania.
It is valuable as cover for worn-out farmlands and is harvested for pulpwood.
www.dcnr.state.pa.us /forestry/commontr/virginia.htm   (131 words)

  
 THE SOUTHERN PINE CONEWORM, DIORYCTRIA AMATELLA, ON VIRGINIA PINE
The southern pine coneworm, Dioryctria amatella, is one of four Dioryctria species that is known to commonly attack 2nd-year cones on lollylob pine in east Texas.
On slash and longleaf pines, early-season infestations tend to occur in flowers and shoots or in rust-infested plant parts, while later generations occur primarily in cones.
A better approach for managing southern pine coneworms in a Virginia pine Christmas tree planting would be to properly manage Nantucket pine tip moth infestations and to avoid damaging young trees with tractors or other equipment used in production operations.
insects.tamu.edu /extension/bulletins/uc/uc-004.html   (701 words)

  
 Hiker's Notebook: Pitch Pine
Pitch Pine is characterized by stiff, yellow-green needles that are in bundles of 3 with lengths ranging from 3 to 5 inches.
The richness of the resins of the Pitch Pine was recognized by the earliest colonists.
Gum naval stores are obtained by tapping pine trees (similar to rubber tree tapping), sulphate naval stores are obtained by converting pine wood chips to pulp by the sulphate process, and wood naval stores are obtained by solvent extraction from resin-saturated pine stumps.
www.mwrop.org /W_Needham/PitchPine_050227.htm   (665 words)

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