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The Virginia Pine Tree
Virginia Pine is a member of the Pine family Pinaceae and is known scientifically as Pinus virginiana. It was once thought of as a forest weed but it has now become quite commercially important. It is also referred to as the spruce pine or Jersey pine. It does extremely well when it comes to reforesting cutover and abandoned land that it is now a main source of lumber and pulpwood in the southeast.
Appearance
Usually, the Virginia Pine tree is usually small or medium in size. It can reach heights of seventy meters and eventually grows itself a flat, top sparse crown. The trunk almost always has dead, grey branch stubs that are angled sharply upwards.
This tree is evergreen so the leaves are present all year around in the form of needles that are round three inches long. They are yellow green in colour, twisted, and slight divergent towards the stem. The twigs are slender, and change colour from green when they are young to purple green later on. The buds are gray brown in colour. The bark is scaly and orange brown in young trees. As the tree gets older the trunk develops small, thin, scaly plates and the upper parts often have cinnamon coloured patches on it.
Flowers and fruits
The Virginia Pine is monoecious, so both male and female flowers are on the same tree. The male flowers are yellow and cylindrical and found near the tip of the branch. The female flowers vary from red to yellow and have curved prickles on them.
The fruit is in the form of a conical cone, with reddish brown scales. They mature in the fall. This pine is wind-pollinated and practices cross-fertilisation although self fertilisation is also an option. Seed dispersal usually begins around October and is finished after three months, even though some seeds may be released until the next spring.
Care Tips
The seedlings of this tree need the most care, rather than the adult tree. They need full, direct sunlight for the best growth. Even having partial shade reduces their growth, and full shade will kill the seedlings. The seedlings are somewhat tolerant of low moisture in the soil that most other species of pines. While they do well on low moisture soil, their growth is slower if grown on dry sites.
Young trees are especially vulnerable to fire as they have a very thin bark and lack long-lived dormant buds towards the base, in the crown and along the bole.
Uses
Of all the southern conifers, the Virginia Pine is the one more used as a Christmas tree. If trees with the right nutritional growth and desirable traits are chosen, marketable trees are sold as Christmas trees and are produced in as little as three years time. The usual rotation for this pine tree is around five to ten years.
The wood of older pine trees is often softened due to fungal decay; these trees provide woodpeckers with good nesting habitats. Old decayed trees are therefore left near the margins of clear cuts or deforested lands to give the animals a chance at making a new home for them.
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A Beautiful Tree,The Sweet Bay Magnolia
The Sweet Bay Magnolia is sometimes known as the Sweet Bay, Swamp Magnolia or Swamp Bay. It was first found in European gardens as far back as 1688. Colonists referred to it as the beaver tree, because its fleshy roots helped them trap beavers.
This tree can be found occurring naturally in areas that are moist and wet such as along ponds, streams and swamps. It will crop up on its own following a fire and form thickets. It is most common in South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Alabama but can also be found in New York, Texas, Tennessee and Arkansas
Sweet Bay Magnolia trees can be either deciduous or evergreen depending on the climate. In areas with mild winders in the southern range, it tends to be evergreen, while it is more deciduous towards the north.
Appearance
These trees are medium, generally evergreen trees that can grow to heights of thirty meters. They have an open crown with lightly spreading branches. The bark is thin but very tight, and is a gray-brown colour. The inner bark has a mild scent to it, similar to the bay laurel spice.
The leaves of these trees are simple and have a blunt, pointed tip. The leaves are thin but leathery and are shiny and smooth on the surface and have white, fine hairs on the lower surface. You can distinguish these trees by looking for leaf scars that can usually be seen at the joint between the leaves and the twigs.
Sweet bay magnolia flowers are creamy white blossoms that are very showy. They tend to show up in early summer and late spring and are similar to southern magnolia blossoms, but are smaller than them. The flowers have a very strong, distinctive vanilla scent that can be sensed from as far away as several hundred yards.
These flowers give way to fruits that are a collection of smooth, red follicles. These mature around early autumn and then release several red, flat, oval-shaped seeds for pollination.
Uses
This tree has many uses, but is mainly used as an ornamental tree. Its attractiveness makes it a popular plant for large gardens and parks. It is popular with many people due to its beautiful, clean foliage, its fast growth, and its large, extravagant, scented flowers and fruits. These handsome plants are quite resistant to damage by ice storms. Another area in which then are used are horticultural applications, because they give a very architectural feel to any landscape design.
The wood of these plants is also very useful. It is soft and even-grained which makes it very easy to work with. The wood also gives off a pleasant, slight aroma. As a result it is used widely in the manufacture of veneer, containers, furniture, boxes, pulpwood and some forms of lumber.
Out in the wild, these Sweet bay magnolia trees provide food for cattle and deer, and can make up at least twenty five percent of a cattle's diet, particularly during cold, winter months. The fruits of the plant are a good source of food for many forms of wildlife, such as squirrels, rodents, turkey, quail and other songbirds.
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is a state certified wholesael nursery in Tennessee.