When I was a kid my dad would take me on Indian relic hikes that would invariably go through various slash pine plantations. This was in south Georgia. The plantation owners would literally "slash" the pines--make a wound in the bark--and place pans to collect the sap beneath the slashes. Similar, in some ways, to collecting maple sap, in principle. Plantation slash pines look a lot different from wild ones. The ones on plantations grow straight and true, but the ones that I encounter in natural settings have a lot of large limbs and quite a bit of differentiation in the trunks. One thing notable about them are the really long needles. Longer than most other pines I've seen.
On Sep 25, 8:34 am, [email protected] wrote: > Larry, > > Slash pine is a cool species. But I know very little about it and where it > fits into the ecosystem as well as its economic uses. Wasn't it an important > source of turpentine? I would image our buddy Will Fell could tell us a lot > about the species. > > Bob > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Larry" <[email protected]> > To: "ENTSTrees" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 7:55:22 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: [ENTS] Re: Ashburnham spruce > > Bob, Cool! I really enjoy those odd trees. I have a couple of odd > limbed Slash Pines close by. I've been meaning to post them. Larry --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
