Pinus rigida
pitch pine
Silviculture
(silvics courtesy of Silvics Manual, USFS)
Wood
Technical Fact Sheet
(courtesy of Hardwoods of North America, Forest
Products Lab, USFS)
Fire
Effects On
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From
Virginia Tech w/Photos
(Big List courtesy of VT Dendrology)
Species
Documentation and Data
(The BEST conifer data on the Internet, Gymnosperm
Database, Editor C. J. Earle)
North American Timber Types
(courtesy About Forestry)
The Great American
Coniferous Forest
(courtesy About Forestry)
Quick Stats
Common Names: Black Norway pine, black pine, hard
pine, jack-pine, longleaf pine, longschat pine, mountain pine,
northern pitch pine, Norway black pine, pech kiefer, pek-pijn,
Pennsylvania yellow pine, pin a feuilles rigides, pin a l'aubier,
pin raide, pin rigida, pino bronco, pino rigido, pino rogido,
pitch pine, pitchpin, pond pine, red pine, regida pijn, ridge
pine, rigid pine, sap pine, shortleaf pine, soderns gul-tall,
southern yellow pine, torch pine, wiesen kiefer, yellow pine.
Habitat: grows mostly on the poorer soils.
Description: The species name of pitch pine (Pinus rigida) means rigid or stiff and refers to both the cone scales and the wide-spreading, sharply pointed needles .
Uses: Dimension stock, timbers, plywood, pulp
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