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  Guide to the Common Trees of Pennsylvania

Trees | Glossary | Visual Guide | Leaf Parts, Types, & Position

Red Pine
(Needle-Shaped or Linear)
Like white pine, this medium to large-size tree developes one horizontal whorl of side branches each year. A valuable timber tree in the northern part of the state, its wood is used chiefly for construction lumber. Native on dry slopes in Luzerne, Wyoming, Tioga, and Centre counties and planted extensively by the Bureau of Forestry and the Pennsylvania Game Commission. Songbirds, mice and chipmunks feed on the seeds.

Red Pine
Pinus resinosa Ait.
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Leaves
Evergreen needles in clusters of 2, slender, 4"-6" long, dark green, borne in dense tufts at the ends of the branchlets: snap easily when bent double.
Twigs
Stout, ridged, yellow-brown to red-brown, buds egg-shaped, about 1/2" long, brown at first and later silvery.
Fruit
A cone, about 2" long, without prickles, nearly stalkless, remains attached until the following year.
Bark
Comparatively smooth, reddish brown.

Select a Tree from a menu below, or download the Visual Guide

Needle-Shaped or Linear

  

Wide & Flat: Opposite Arrangement

Wide and Flat: Alternate Arrangement

Information courtesy of:
PA Department of Conservation & Natural Resources
 
 

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