I can see longleaf pine Pinus palustris

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Do not confuse with sister-species ◼︎ eastern white pine  Pinus strobus, which has a similar common name.

In the southern 🇺🇸 USA, also called ◼︎ yellow pine.  Although do not confuse with sister-species also sometimes called that:

• shortleaf pine  Pinus echinata (in southern 🇺🇸 USA) (where wood marketed as ◼︎ southern yellow pine SYP),
• slash pine  Pinus elliottii          (in southern 🇺🇸 USA) (where wood marketed as ◼︎ southern yellow pine SYP),
• longleaf pine  Pinus palustris (this plant!)  (in southern 🇺🇸 USA) (where wood marketed as ◼︎ southern yellow pine SYP),
• loblolly pine  Pinus taeda        (in southern 🇺🇸 USA) (where wood marketed as ◼︎ southern yellow pine SYP),
• Jeffrey pine  Pinus jeffreyi             (in western 🇺🇸 USA) (where also called ◼︎ western yellow pine),
• ponderosa pine  Pinus ponderosa (in western 🇺🇸 USA) (where also called ◼︎ western yellow pine),
• ◼︎ eastern white pine  Pinus strobus (in 🇬🇧 UK), and
• Scots pine  Pinus sylvestris              (in 🇬🇧 UK).

Part of 🌲︎ pine  genus Pinus in 🌲︎ cedar / fir / hemlock / larch / pine / spruce  family Pinaceae in 🌲︎ conifer  order Pinales.

Native to 🇺🇸 USA Southeast.

🗺 Map (scroll down), 🗺 map (North America, Central America),   🗺 today + with climate change (eastern 🇺🇸 USA).

🏛🌲︎ State tree of Alabama.

In this area (particularly 🇨🇦 Canada AB BC SK, and 🇺🇸 USA AZ CA CO ID MO MT NV NM OR SD UT WA WI WY):

• do not move pine logs, stumps, branches, firewood nor untreated lumber

due to possible infestation by the insect mountain pine beetle (MPB)  Dendroctonus ponderosae, which carries various species of 🍄︎ fungus / mushroom  kingdom Fungi.

Uses by native peoples
(Ethnobotany database)

Pinus hosts caterpillars of 247 species
of butterflies and moths, in some areas.   This plant is also known to be a host for (in areas where invasive) 🐝︎ spotted lanternfly (SLF)  Lycorma delicatula.

As a 🌱︎ seedling, this pine has a 🌾︎ grass stage, where its needles all emerge from a common center near the ground, causing it to look like a bunchgrass, while also developing a long taproot.  This stage might last one to seven years, or even 20.  Only after our plant detects a large increase in available light (perhaps caused by a storm or 🔥︎ low-intensity fire that opened up the forest canopy), our seedling starts to bolt (suddenly grow tall).  Also sharing this strategy are several sister-species of pine, mostly tropical. ^[1]   The only species likely to be covered in ICSN soon is slash pine  Pinus elliottii.

Thus, longleaf pine's growth is improved by 🔥︎ low-intensity wildfire.  And made worse by 🐖︎ feral pigs.

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