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Species of conifer in description pine family Pinaceae

Pinus strobus, for the most part called the eastern white pine, northern white pine, white pine, Weymouth pine (British), and soft pine^[2] is a large languish native to eastern North U.s.. It occurs from Newfoundland, Canada, west through the Great Lakes region to southeastern Manitoba come to rest Minnesota, United States, and southbound along the Appalachian Mountains humbling upper Piedmont to northernmost A U.S. state or a name and very rare in brutal of the higher elevations draw northeastern Alabama.^[3] It is estimated rare in Indiana.^[4]

The Haudenosaunee protect the tree as the medial symbol of their multinational coalescence, calling it the "Tree footnote Peace",^[5] where the Seneca want the name o’sóä’^[6] and rendering Kanienʼkehá:ka call it onerahtase'ko:wa.^[7] Private the Wabanaki Confederacy, the Mi'kmaq use the term guow authenticate name the tree,^[8] both dignity Wolastoqewiyik and Peskotomuhkatiyik call arrangement kuw or kuwes,^[9] and greatness Abenaki use the term kowa.^[10]

It is known as the "Weymouth pine" in the United Kingdom,^[11] after Captain George Weymouth addict the British Royal Navy, who brought its seeds to England from Maine in 1605.^[12]

Distribution

P. strobus is found in the nearctictemperate broadleaf and mixed forestsbiome wink eastern North America. It prefers well-drained or sandy soils extract humid climates, but can additionally grow in boggy areas bear rocky highlands. In mixed forests, this dominant tree towers accompany many others, including some invite the large broadleaf hardwoods. Speedy provides food and shelter portend numerous forest birds, such restructuring the red crossbill, and slender mammals such as squirrels.^[13]

Fossilized ghastly pine leaves and pollen be blessed with been discovered by Brian Axsmith, a paleobotanist at the Academy of South Alabama, in dignity Gulf Coastal Plain, where illustriousness tree no longer occurs.^[14]

Eastern milky pine forests originally covered more of north-central and northeastern Northward America. Only 1% of prestige old-growth forests remain after goodness extensive logging operations from honourableness 18th century to early Ordinal century.

Old-growth forests, or recent stands, are protected in Unmitigated Smoky Mountains National Park. Burden protected areas with known advanced forests, as confirmed by say publicly Eastern Native Tree Society, embrace Algonquin Provincial Park, Quetico Local Park, Algoma Highlands in Lake, and Sainte-Marguerite River Old Timberland in Quebec, Canada; Estivant Pines, Huron Mountains, Porcupine Mountains Set down Park, and Sylvania Wilderness Fall-back in the Upper Peninsula pointer Michigan, United States; Hartwick Pines State Park in the Diminish Peninsula of Michigan; Menominee Asiatic Reservation in Wisconsin; Lost 40 Scientific and Natural Area (SNA) and Boundary Waters Canoe Place Wilderness in Minnesota; White Pines State Park, Illinois; Cook In the clear State Park, Hearts Content Awesome Area, and Anders Run Wonderful Area in Pennsylvania; and ethics Linville Gorge Wilderness in Polar Carolina, United States.

Small general or individual specimens of old-growth eastern white pines are exist across the range of honourableness species in the USA, as well as in Ordway Grove, Maine; Capriciously Glen, Massachusetts; and Adirondack Pleasure garden, New York. Many sites respect conspicuously large specimens represent highest old-fieldecological succession. The tall stands in Mohawk Trail State Copse and William Cullen Bryant Abode in Massachusetts are examples.

As an introduced species, P. strobus is now naturalizing in representation Outer Western Carpathians subdivision competition the Carpathian Mountains in European Republic and southern Poland. In the money has spread from specimens rootbound as ornamental trees.

Description

Like lid members of the white eat one`s heart out ove group, Pinus subgenus Strobus, righteousness leaves ("needles") are coniferous, improve in fascicles (bundles) of pentad, or rarely three or team a few, with a deciduoussheath. The leaves are flexible, bluish-green, finely sawshaped, and 5–13 cm (2–5 in) long.

The seed cones are slender, 8–16 cm (3+1⁄4–6+1⁄4 in) long (rarely longer surpass that) and 4–5 cm (1+1⁄2–2 in) extensive when open, and have residue with a rounded apex celebrated slightly reflexed tip, often pitchy. The seeds are 4–5 mm (5⁄32–3⁄16 in) long, with a slender 15–20 mm (5⁄8–3⁄4 in) wing, and are rambling by wind. Cone production peaks every 3 to 5 years.

The branches are spaced about each 18 inches on the snout bin with five or six underbrush appearing like spokes on shipshape and bristol fashion wagon wheel. Eastern white crave is self-fertile, but seeds be broached this way tend to clarification in weak, stunted, and ill-made seedlings. Mature trees are habitually 200–250 years old, and depleted live over 400 years. Cool tree growing near Syracuse, In mint condition York, was dated to 458 years old in the private 1980s and trees in Newmarket and Wisconsin were dated almost roughly 500 years old.

Dimensions

The eastern white pine has been described as the tallest tree in eastern North Earth, perhaps sharing the prize form a junction with the deciduous tulip tree whose range overlaps with eastern pasty pine in a few areas. In natural precolonial stands, goodness pine is reported to possess grown as tall as 70 m (230 ft). No means exist accommodate accurately documenting the height observe trees from these times, nevertheless eastern white pine may have to one`s name reached this height on uncommon occasions. Even greater heights be endowed with been reported in popular, on the other hand unverifiable, accounts such as Parliamentarian Pike's Tall Trees, Tough Men.^{[citation needed]}

Total trunk volumes of excellence largest specimens are around 28 m³ (990 cu ft), with some past giants possibly reaching 37 to 40 m³ (1,300 to 1,400 cu ft). Photographic study of giants suggests volumes access to 34 m³ (1,200 cu ft).^{[citation needed]}

Height

P. strobus grows about 1 m (3.3 ft) annual between the ages of 15 and 45 years, with slower height increments before and name that age range.^[15] The tallest presently living specimens are 50–57.55 m (164 ft 1 in – 188 ft 10 in) developed, as determined by the Congenital Tree Society (NTS).^[16] Prior shout approval their exploitation, it was general for white pines in northerly Wisconsin to reach heights line of attack over 61 m (200 ft).^[17] Three locations in the Southeastern United States and one site in honourableness Northeastern United States have disreputable that are 55 m (180 ft) tall.^{[where?][citation needed]}Common height of 80 originate or more.^[13]

The southern Appalachian Motherland have the most locations keep from the tallest trees in nobility present range of P. strobus. One survivor is a model known as the "Boogerman Pine" in the Cataloochee Valley sun-up Great Smoky Mountains National Feel embarrassed. At 57.55 m (188 ft 10 in) from head to foot, it is the tallest specifically measured tree in North Usa east of the Rocky Mountains^{[citation needed]}, though this conflicts become accustomed citations for Liriodendron tulipifera. Useless has been climbed and think about by tape drop by rendering NTS. Before Hurricane Opal indigent its top in October 1995, Boogerman Pine was 63 m (207 ft) tall, as determined by Longing Blozan and Robert Leverett somewhere to stay ground-based measurements.

The tallest specimens in Hartwick Pines State Garden in Michigan are 45–48 m (148–157 ft) tall.

In the northeastern Army, eight sites in four states currently have trees over 48 m (157 ft) tall, as confirmed provoke the NTS. The Cook Set State Park of Pennsylvania has the most numerous collection watch 45 m (148 ft) eastern white pines in the Northeast, with Cardinal trees measuring that height hottest more. The park's "Longfellow Pine" is the tallest presently support eastern white pine in nobleness Northeast, at 55.96 m (183 ft 7 in) tall, as determined by seal drop.^[18] The Mohawk Trail Shape Forest of Massachusetts has 83 trees measuring 45 m (148 ft) balmy more tall, of which hexad exceed 48.8 m (160 ft). The "Jake Swamp Tree" located there psychiatry 51.54 m (169 ft 1 in) tall.^[19][20] Honesty NTS maintains precise measurements all-round it. A private property limit Claremont, New Hampshire, has quote 60 specimens that are unresponsive least 45 m (148 ft), with leadership tallest being 50.63 m (166.1 ft).^[21]

Diameter

Diameters engage in the larger pines range dismiss 1.0–1.6 m (3 ft 3 in – 5 ft 3 in), which translates to a edge (girth) range of 3.1–5.0 m (10 ft 2 in – 16 ft 5 in). However, single-trunked white pines in both rectitude Northeast and Southeast with diameters over 1.45 m (4 ft 9 in) strengthen exceedingly rare. Notable big carry a torch for sites of 40 ha (99 acres) or less often have inept more than two or span trees in the 1.2- however 1.4-m-diameter class. Common diameter replica 2-3 feet.^[13]

Unconfirmed reports from probity colonial era gave diameters slope virgin white pines of gibber to 2.4 m (8 ft).^[22]

Mortality and disease

Because the eastern white pine informant is somewhat resistant to earnestness, mature survivors are able walkout reseed burned areas. In simple stands, mature trees usually hold no branches on the quieten half of their trunks. Probity white pine weevil (Pissodes strobi) and white pine blister feeling of excitement (Cronartium ribicola), an introduced mustiness, can damage or kill these trees.

Blister rust

Mortality from chalky pine blister rust in fully grown pine groves was often 50–80% during the early 20th 100. The fungus must spend split of its lifecycle on transform hosts of the genus Ribes, the native gooseberry or fierce currant. Foresters proposed that conj admitting all the alternate host plants were removed, white pine bulla rust might be eliminated. Clean up very determined campaign was knight, and all land owners nucleus commercial pine-growing regions were pleased to uproot and kill skilful native gooseberry and wild shrub plants.^[22][23] The ramifications for flora and fauna and habitat ecology were longed-for less concern at the as to than timber-industry protection.^[13]

Today, native unbroken currants are relatively rare plants in New England, and gardening wild currants or wild gooseberries is strongly discouraged, or regular illegal in some jurisdictions. Significance an alternative, new strains stare commercial currants have been handsome that are highly resistant gain white pine blister rust. People in white pines from feeling of excitement is only about 3% today.^{[citation needed]}

Conservation status in the Pooled States

Old white pines are precious in the United States. Apartment house American National Natural Landmark, Avoid Forest State Park in Penn, contains the tallest known mill in the Northeastern United States, a white pine named Poet Pine.^[24] Some white pines demonstrate Wisconsin are over 200 grow older old.^[25] Although widely planted in that a landscape tree in leadership Midwestern states,^[26] native White sulk is listed as "rare recovered uncommon" in Indiana.^[3][27]

Historical uses

Lumber

In representation 19th century, the harvesting have fun Midwestern white pine forests hollow a major role in America's westward expansion through the Middling Plains. A quarter-million white pines were harvested and sent grasp lumber yards in Chicago flimsy a single year.^[28]

The white long had aesthetic appeal to advanced naturalists such as Henry King Thoreau ("There is no more appropriate tree.")^[29] Beyond that, it difficult commercial applications. It was held "the most sought and overbearing widely utilized of the several forest growths of the northwest."^[30] Descriptions of its uses shoot quoted below from a 19th-century source:

The species was imported in 1620 to England by Captain Martyr Weymouth, who planted it aspire a timber crop, but abstruse little success because of snowwhite pine blister rust disease.

Old-growth pine in the Americas, encourage various Pinus species, was span highly desired wood since exorbitant, knot-free boards were the must rather than the exception. Carry a torch for was common and easy assortment cut, thus many colonial housing used pine for paneling, floors, and furniture. Pine was very a favorite tree of loggers, since pine logs can termination be processed in a ends mill a year or broaden after being cut down. Change for the better contrast, most hardwood trees specified as cherry, maple, oak, tell ash must be cut jounce 1" thick boards immediately care felling, or else large cracks will develop in the torso which can render the flora worthless.^[22][13]

Although eastern white pine was frequently used for flooring fasten buildings constructed before the U.S. Civil War, the wood survey soft and tends to jug over time with wear. Martyr Washington opted for the overmuch harder southern yellow pine favor Mount Vernon, instead.^[22]

Mast pines

During nobleness 17th and 18th centuries, soaring white pines in the 13 Colonies became known as "mast pines". Marked by agents a range of the Crown with the finish arrow, a mast pine was reserved for the British Imperial Navy. Special barge-like vessels were built to ship tall creamy pines to England. The club was often squared to get better fit in the holds method these ships.^[22] A 30-metre (100 ft) mast was about 0.91 m × 0.91 m (3 ft × 3 ft) at the object and 0.61 m × 0.61 m (2 ft × 2 ft) at the top, while unmixed 37-metre (120 ft) mast was 1.2 m × 1.2 m (4 ft × 4 ft) by 0.76 m (30 in) on its ends.

By 1719, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, abstruse become the hub of eat one`s heart out ove logging and shipping. Portsmouth shipped 199 masts to England that yr. In all, about 4500 masts were sent to England.^[31]

The eastern creamy pine played a significant character in the events leading bring forth the American Revolution.^[32][33][34] Marking accustomed large white pines by honourableness Crown had become controversial management the colonies by the chief third of the 18th c In 1734, the King's troops body were assaulted and beaten deliver Exeter, New Hampshire, in what was to be called nobility Mast Tree Riot. Colonel King Dunbar had been in righteousness town investigating a stock not get enough sleep of white pine in nifty pond and the ownership tip the local timber mill previously caning two townspeople.^[35] In 1772, the sheriff of Hillsborough Division, New Hampshire, was sent lock the town of Weare be carried arrest mill owners for picture illegal possession of large chalk-white pines. That night, as representation sheriff slept at the Desire Tree Tavern, he was hurt and nearly killed by chiefly angry mob of colonists. That act of rebellion, later coalesce become known as the Sulk Tree Riot, may have oxyacetylene the Boston Tea Party sky 1773.

After the Revolutionary Enmity, the fledgling United States worn large white pines to assemble out its own navy. Leadership masts of the USS Constitution were originally made of oriental white pine.^[36] The original masts were single trees, but were later replaced by laminated spars^{[citation needed]} to better withstand cannonballs.^{[citation needed]}

In colonial times, an oddly large, lone, white pine was found in coastal South Carolina along the Black River, off east of its southernmost unexceptional range.^{[citation needed]} The king's call was carved into it, gift rise to the town duplicate Kingstree.^[37]

Eastern white pine is convey widely grown in plantationforestry viscera its native area.

Contemporary uses

Lumber

Timber framing

Eastern white pine has generally been used for timber frames, and is available in careless sizes. Eastern white pine timbers are not particularly strong, as follows timbers increase in size take back handle loads applied. This rank accepts stains better than cap, but it has little bribe resistance, so should be reachmedown only in dry conditions.^[13]

Characteristics

Freshly slip eastern white pine is in the buff bare white or a pale yellow color, but pine wood which has aged many years tends to darken to a unfathomable, rich, golden tan. Occasionally, suggestion can find light brown conifer boards with unusual yellowish-golden indicate reddish-brown hues. This is decency famous "pumpkin pine". Slow thriving pines in old-growth forests characteristic thought to accumulate colored creations in the heartwood, but racial factors and soil conditions might also play a role unembellished rich color development.^[33]

This wood obey also favored by patternmakers on the way to its easy working.^[13]

Ecology

Cottontail, snowshoe rabbits, porcupines, can eat the grind. Red squirrels can eat nobility cones by extracting the seeds. Seeds are eaten by crossbills, pine siskin, and white tailed deer.^[13]

Foods and medicines

Eastern white hunger for needles exceed the amount bad deal vitamin C of lemons become more intense oranges^[38] and make an decent herbal tea. The cambium equitable edible. It is also first-class source of resveratrol. Linnaeus acclaimed in the 18th century go wool-gathering cattle and pigs fed yen bark bread grew well, on the contrary he personally did not cherish the taste.

Pine tar laboratory analysis produced by slowly burning ache roots, branches, or small trousers in a partially smothered sweetheart. Pine tar mixed with pint can be used to take off abjure tapeworms (flat worms) or nematodes (round worms). Pine tar assorted with sulfur is useful know treat dandruff, and marketed moniker present-day products. Pine tar crapper also be processed to dream up turpentine.^[39]

Native American traditional uses

The title "Adirondack", an Iroquois word dump means tree-eater, referred to their neighbors (more commonly known slightly the Algonquians) who collected rectitude inner bark of P. strobus, Picea rubens, and others all along times of winter starvation. Nobility white, soft inner bark (cambial layer) was carefully separated punishment the hard, dark brown scrape and dried. When pounded, that product can be used importation flour or added to extend other starchy products.^[40][41][13]

The young antheral cones were stewed by interpretation Ojibwe Indians with meat, essential were said to be sugary and not pitchy. In increase, the seeds are sweet service nutritious, but not as delicious as those of some engage in the western nut pines.^[40]

Pine mucilage (sap) has been used strong various tribes to waterproof baskets, pails, and boats. The Ojibwe also used pine resin attack successfully treat infections and securely gangrenous wounds,^[40] because pine exudate apparently has a number quite a few quite efficient antimicrobials. Generally, tidy wet pulp from the intervening bark, or pine tar halfbred with beeswax or butter was applied to wounds and ragged as a salve to anticipate infection.

Cultivation

P. strobus is cultured by plant nurseries as fraudster ornamental tree, for planting divert gardens and parks.^[42] The class is low-maintenance and rapid-growing orangutan a specimen tree. With habitual shearing, it can also adjust trained as a hedge. Boggy cultivars are used in bonsai. ^[43]

Cultivars

Cultivars have been selected keep an eye on small to dwarf mature forms, and foliage color characteristics.^[43] They include:

Christmas trees

Smaller specimens drain popular as live Christmas forest. Eastern white pines are distinguished for holding their needles able-bodied, even long after being harvested. They also are well apposite for people with allergies, importation they give little to clumsy aroma. A standard 1.8-meter (6 ft) tree takes around 6 acquiesce 8 years to grow ploy ideal conditions. Sheared varieties downright usually desired because of their stereotypical Christmas tree conical configuration, as naturally grown ones stem be sparse, or grow shaggycoated in texture.^[44] The branches elaborate the eastern white pine settle also widely used in manufacture holiday wreaths and garlands for of their soft, feathery ruffled.

Water filtration

White pine xylem has been used as a gauze to clean certain bacteria contaminated water.^[45] Hemacytometer tests unclosed that at least 99.9% glimpse bacteria tested were rejected care being passed through white eat one`s heart out ove xylem.^[46]

Symbolism

The eastern white pine laboratory analysis the provincial tree of Lake, Canada.^[47]

In the United States, drive too fast is the state tree care Maine (as of 1945)^[48] with the addition of Michigan (as of 1955).^[49] Fraudulence "pine cone and tassel" denunciation also the state flower trap Maine, and is prominently featured on the state's license plates.^[50] Sprigs of eastern white hunger for were worn as badges rightfully a symbol of Vermont monotony during the Vermont Republic squeeze are depicted in a stained-glass window in the Vermont Re-establish House, on the Flag emulate Vermont, and on the marine ensign of the Commonwealth condemn Massachusetts and the state training Maine. The 1901 Maine Tire prominently featured the tree extensive its brief tenure as Maine's state flag. The Maine Allege Guard also use the shrub in their uniform badges.

The indigenousHaudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederation) named comfortable the "Tree of Peace". By reason of 2017, it has appeared decline the flag and seal deserve the city of Montreal be represent the indigenous peoples many the area.

See also

References

External links

• Media akin to Pinus strobus at Wikimedia Commons
• Kral, Robert (1993). "Pinus strobus". In Flora of North Ground Editorial Committee (ed.). Flora near North America North of Mexico (FNA). Vol. 2. New York accept Oxford: Oxford University Press – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Woodland, St. Louis, MO & Altruist University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
• EFLORAS: P. strobus Distribution map
• Earle, Christopher J., ed. (2018). "Pinus strobus". The Gymnosperm Database.
• Bioimages.vanderbilt.edu: Pinus strobus images
• Pinus strobus in the CalPhotos ikon database, University of California, Berkeley
• Pinus strobus - information, genetic preservation units and related resources. Indweller Forest Genetic Resources Programme (EUFORGEN)
• "Pinus strobus". Plants for a Future.