I have not been able to find a garden/nursery source for the Spruce Pine (Pinus Glabra). I would SO like to "put out" several of these in...Read Moredigenous pines - short needles and "full" branching. I don't want to try growing them from seed or digging them from along a roadside. I would like to purchase healthy potted saplings. Alas, perhaps that will never happen :-(
I find this tree to be stronger when it is open grown so it can form a thicker trunk resistant to breakage. I guess that could be said a...Read Morebout all pines.
A small tree occuring mostly in the middle to lower South. It is commonly found in hardwood forests as a stand alone tree. It is a shade ...Read Moretolerant pine and hybrids with the Shortleaf Pine have been found.
Trunk bark is dark and ridged, resembling a hardwood tree rather than a pine.
Cones are 2' to 3" and old cones remain on the tree.
Spruce pine, also called cedar-pine or bottom-white pine, is a member of the southern yellow pine group. It is the most shade-tolerant sp...Read Moreecies of southern pine and is scattered throughout the southeast in mixed hardwood stands, rarely occurring in pure stands.
The wood from spruce pine is brittle and close-grained. It lacks durability and has little commercial value, except as a pulpwood. The leaves are needle-like, about 3" long, and found in fascicles of two. They are slender, dark bluish-green, twisted, and lightly fragrant. In spring and early summer, new needles are lighter green and often contrast noticeably with the darker older needles. The bark is silvery, greyish-brown and furrowed and looks more like hardwood bark, than that of a conifer.
Occasionally, spruce pines are grown for Christmas trees because of their attractive coloring and spruce-like appearance.
The trees provide important resources for numerous wildlife species, including bobwhite quail and squirrels, who eat the seeds. Songbirds, owls, and hawks all use the trees for cover or nesting.
Spruce pine occurs from South Carolina, west to Louisiana, and south into central Florida.
Mail Order Natives has seedlings for sale.
I have not been able to find a garden/nursery source for the Spruce Pine (Pinus Glabra). I would SO like to "put out" several of these in...Read More
I find this tree to be stronger when it is open grown so it can form a thicker trunk resistant to breakage. I guess that could be said a...Read More
A small tree occuring mostly in the middle to lower South. It is commonly found in hardwood forests as a stand alone tree. It is a shade ...Read More
Spruce pine, also called cedar-pine or bottom-white pine, is a member of the southern yellow pine group. It is the most shade-tolerant sp...Read More