SCIENTIFIC NAME: Pinus strobus

COMMON NAME: white pine

LEAVES: 5 needles/fascicle with a white line underneath (stomates). 3" to 5" long and very flexible. Almost no bundle sheath.

CONES: Long narrow cone (5" X 2") that is crescent shaped (curved). Scales of cone tend to have whitish tips. Very attractive cone that is not retained by the tree for long periods. Cone does not stick when squeezed.

BARK: Smooth when young then scaly plates when old.

OTHER: Grows 100' to 150' tall. Limbs are whorled. The wood from this tree was used to build Chicago before it burned down. Native from north Georgia to Canada, but won't take the heat of the deep south. Can get Eastern white blister rust (white ooze running down tree). By counting the whorls and adding 2 you get the age of the tree. Forms sinker roots (several roots come out from the trunk and then go down deep into the soil). Use only north of Atlanta. Can be field grown and dug balled and burlapped and burlapped (B&B) or container grown. Native from north Georgia to Canada. One tree cut down in Lycoming County, PA in 1899 was 12' DBH and 210' tall. White pine blister rust, Cronartium ribicola, is a fungus disease that is a problem on this species. A white exudate on the trunk characterizes this problem.