Ed, It's funny you mentioned me in your original response. I happen to have a couple of Sugar Pine cones that my parents brought back from Yosemite several years ago. Well, at least one anyway. They have a few cones and I have one. They sure are big. Barry
--- On Sat, 7/4/09, Edward Frank <[email protected]> wrote: From: Edward Frank <[email protected]> Subject: [ENTS] Re: [W/ENTS] Re: Sugar Pines To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, July 4, 2009, 2:20 PM #yiv540958837 .hmmessage P { PADDING-BOTTOM:0px;MARGIN:0px;PADDING-LEFT:0px;PADDING-RIGHT:0px;PADDING-TOP:0px;} #yiv540958837 { FONT-FAMILY:Verdana;FONT-SIZE:10pt;} George, Don, Everyone Sugar Pines get exceptionally large. Bob Van Pelt lists the top five largest in his book Forest Giants of the Pacific Coast Tree Girth Height Location Whelan 34' 5" 206' Dorrington, CA Pickering Pine 36' 6" 209' Dorrington, CA Calaveras Colossus 30' 11" 202 Calaveras Big Tree State Park, CA One-Armed Bandit 28' 8" 209 Dorrington, CA Yosemite Giant 29' 0" 268' Yosemite National park, CA So your tree has a bit to grow to catch up. Ed --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
