Pond pine

The needles are in bundles of three or four, and of length 15-20 cm. The almost round cones are 5-9 cm long with small prickles on the scales. Its cones are serotinous and require fire to open. The Pond Pine is found in wet habitats near ponds, bays, swamps, and pocosins.

treat Pond Pine as a subspecies of Pitch Pine. Natural range. Pond pine cones are smaller and rounder than loblolly pine cones. Unlike loblolly pines, pond pines have the ability to grow needles directly from the trunk. External links - * Flora of North America, Profile and map: P. serotina * USDA FS: Silvics of Trees of North America. Pinus serotina Michx. More

Monterey Pine, Pond Pine), the seeds are stored in closed ("serotinous") cones for many years until a forest fire kills the parent tree; the cones are also opened by the heat and the stored seeds are then released in huge numbers to re-populate the burnt ground. More

Some pond pine sites fall within jurisdictional wetlands thus some management activities associated with a fire management program may require wetland permits. More