Coniferophyta: ?: Coniferales: Pinaceae: Pinus rigida [return to Home Page]

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Scientific name: Coniferophyta: ?: Coniferales: Pinaceae: Pinus rigida
Common Name: Pitch Pine

Country: USA
State/District: NJ
County: Burlington
Date: 24 June 2001

Photographer: E. M. Barrows

Identifier: E. M. Barrows
Collector: not applicable
Location: Lebanon State Forest
Keywords: A Lebanon State Forest Pine Barrens Pitch Pine tree
Additional Information:

Figure 1.   Pitch Pines growing with Oaks in Lebanon State Forest, New Jersey.

Figure 2.   Ditto.

Figure 3.   Pitch Pine trunk sprouts, a common phenomenon for this pine species which is not found in most other pine species.

Figure 4.   Pitch Pine cones.   Some of the cones open without being heated by a forest fire, and some remain closed until heat from a fire opens them.




Please see the page on Common Snapping Turtle and Lebanon State Forest for further information on the Forest.




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