All I know is, when you go to a lumber yard or a Home Depot, there's a lot of lumber that's called Yellow Pine. I've heard it mentioned on This Old House too. But what is yellow pine? I heard it's not a species at all.
--- On Fri, 9/18/09, Dale Luthringer <[email protected]> wrote: From: Dale Luthringer <[email protected]> Subject: [ENTS] "yellow" pine To: [email protected] Date: Friday, September 18, 2009, 11:42 AM ENTS, I often have folks ask about "yellow" pine at Cook Forest. I'm not entirely sure what exact species they're talking about. They often think that "yellow" pine is it's own species. A quick search of the term on the internet suggests the term "yellow" pine is often made towards a group of pine in the genus Pinus, but doesn't give an official name, kind of like calling any pine found, "yellow" pine. I'm thinking that they're most likely either talking about the park's pitch pine, or possibly more likely... a fond nickname for the ancient large old growth pine found here. Can anyone clear this up for me? These folks even go far back as claiming it as an old forestry term used to describe pine, but they still can't distinguish an actual species. Thanks, Dale --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
