Pinus taeda

Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda )

The loblolly pine (Pinus taeda ), also called American turpentine pine (reference to use), is a plant belonging to the genus pine (Pinus ) within the subfamily Pinoideae of the family (Pinaceae ). It is the official state tree of the U.S. state of Arkansas.

Dissemination

The loblolly pine is native to the southeastern United States. Your deposits will along the Atlantic coast north to Delaware, south to northern Florida. Northwest inland extends the occurrence until after Tennessee; in a westerly direction reaches the circulation area roughly to the river Mississippi; in addition, there are isolated occurrences in Central Texas; the famous " Lost Pines " in the area around Bastrop (Texas ), and deposits along the Colorado River ( Texas) in Texas are also included.

Description

The loblolly pine is an evergreen tree, the plant height of 30 to 35 meters with a trunk diameter of 50 to 100 centimeters, rarely reaches it. Single copies on particularly favorable sites can even reach a height of 45 meters, these specimens are the largest pine trees from the group of U.S. southern pine. The bark is reddish brown with mature trees and breaks into scaly plates. The approximately 12 to 22 cm long needles are grouped into three each in short shoots. This is an average length for the group of U.S. Southern pines, shorter than in the Southern pine (Pinus palustris) or Pinus elliottii on the one hand, but longer than in Pinus echinata and Pinus glabra other.

They are monoecious getrenntgeschlechtig ( monoecious ). The cylindrical, male cones are 20-40 mm long and yellow to yellow - brown. The initially greenish cones are at the maturity time light to dark brown. Its length is about 7 to 13 cm. Its diameter is 2 to 3 cm in the closed state is increased by the opening of 4-6 cm. Each stub Scale carries a sharp spike which is about 3 to 6 mm in size. The 5 to 6 mm wide, red - brown seed has an up to 20 mm long wings.

" Eisenhower Tree"

The most famous example of a loblolly pine stand on the Golf Course Augusta National in Georgia; as the former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower often beat his golf balls in this tree, this specimen was also called Eisenhower Tree. In February 2014 he had to be made ​​on the basis of the caused by a persistent cold wave severe damage.

Swell

• Description and taxonomy of the species at The Gymnosperm Database. (English )