Arkansas Tree Database
Loblolly Pine
Loblolly Pine
Scientific name:
Pinus Taeda
Size:
50' tall by 35' wide, up to 130' tall
Leaves:
6"-10" needles, in clusters of 3 (sometimes 2), stiff, slightly twisted; blue-green
Flowers:
inconspicuous
Fruit:
3"-6" cone with short stout prickles
Fall Interest:
needled evergreen
Culture:
sun; very adaptable to soil; fast-growing
Disease/Insect:
Use:
very common and most significant timber tree across Arkansas
Cultivars:
Notes:
bark red-brown in rectangular scaly plates with no resin pockets; can grow on very wet sites, hence the name "loblolly" which means mudhole; native to Arkansas, mainly in counties south of Ouachita Mountains
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