Robert
Thanks. Great description.
Bob
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On Sep 27, 2009, at 12:40 AM, JamesRobertSmith
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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
> >
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