James, I don't know if this was answered before:
http://www.conifers.org/pi/pin/pungens.htm Pederson (2006) [Neil's Eastern Old_List] reports a crossdated age of 232 years for specimen GKA111 collected at Griffith Knob, Virginia by G. DeWeese, H. Grissino-Mayer, and C. Lafon. I would not be surprised if there were much older specimens. it is my impression it is a species that has not been heavily sampled. Ed "Beauty is a summation of the parts working together in such a way that nothing is needed to be added, taken away or altered." Elio Caretti ----- Original Message ----- From: James Parton To: ENTSTrees Sent: Saturday, December 26, 2009 11:15 PM Subject: [ENTS] Re: How old do Table Mountain pines get? James S, I have wondered that myself. Early in the year Will Blozan and I went up into Big Creek in the Smokies where I saw the biggest Table Mountain pines I have ever saw growing high on a ridge. We never stopped to measure them but they may have went 50 feet tall. Will may have a better guess. James P. On Nov 17, 7:11 pm, JamesRobertSmith <[email protected]> wrote: > I've never seen any large Table mountain pines. How big do they get? > And I see so many groves decimated by beetles that I've always assumed > that they don't live long enough to gain any size. > > The reason I'm asking is that I encountered on in a part of the > Linville Gorge called The Amphitheater. It was larger than most Table > mountains pines that I've seen, but it appeared to be very old. It was > extremely gnarled and looked to have been in place in the rock for > quite some time. > > I should have taken some photos, but getting down to the base of it > would have taken some scrambling and I was just too tired. But I plan > to go back. -- 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] -- 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]
