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!The Tree
Shortleaf Pine is one of the four most important hard pines of the southeastern states. It resembles Ponderosa Pine because of its cinnamon-red or yellow-tinged bark broken by large scales and character of the wood. It is, however, a much smaller tree attaining heights of from 80 to 100 feet and diameters from two to three feet. It has long sturdy limbs, and a high clear slightly tapering trunk. The needles are blue-green, slender, three to ﬁve inches long and grow in bundles of two or three which remain on the tree two to ﬁve years. The prickly egg-shaped cones are a dull brown and only one and a half to two inches long, the smallest of any of the southern pines. A peculiarity of this species is the ability of the younger trees to put forth sprouts from the stump. The tree suffers greatly from forest ﬁre damage, is very susceptible to “Bed Heart” and other fungus diseases, attack of the Southern Pine beetle, the pine sawyer, and Nantucket tip moth. However, the tree grows rapidly and ﬁnds favor for ornamental purposes. The Pine is the official State tree of Arkansas, but no particular species is stated. The Shortleaf Pine is a prominent tree growing in that State. 

!Common Names in Use
Shortleaf Pine (Va., Md., Ga., trade) 
Rosemary (La., Tex.) 
Arkansas Shortleaf Pine (trade) 
Rosemary Pine and Rosemary Shortleaf (N. C.)  
Arkansas Soft Pine (trade) 
Bull Pine (Va.) 
Shortleaved Pine (N. C., S. C., Ca,part) CarolinaPine(N. C. and Va. in Ala, Miss, Fla.,La.., Tex., Ark.) 
ShortleavedYellow Pine(trade) 
ForestPine(N. C.) 
ShortschatPine(Del.) 
North CarolinaPine(N. C., and Va. in part,-trade)
SouthernYellow Pine(trade) 
SprucePine(Del.,M£33.,Ark.) 
North CarolinaYellow Pine(N. C.,and Va. inpart) 
VirginiaYellow Pine(Va. in part)  
Yellow Pine (N. Y., N. I., Pa., DeZ., Va., N. C., Ala, Miss., La., Ark,Ma, Ill., Ind.) 
OldﬁeldPine(N. C., Ala, Miss.) 
PitchPine(Ma)  
PoorPine(Fla. ) 

!Growth Range
The Shortleaf Pine is found from Long Island southward to northern Florida, throughout most of the southeastern States, westward through the eastern half of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, in the southern section of Missouri and the eastern section of Oklahoma and Texas.

!The Wood
 The wood is moderately hard, stiff, strong, non-porous, and has a straight prominent grain with an attractive ﬁgure for a pine. The heartwood varies in shades of orange and yellow to red— dish light brown in which the growth rings Show very prominently with narrow sapwood of nearly white to yellowish or orange-white. It is one of the “hard” pines and somewhat difﬁcult to distinguish from other southern pines. In commonwith all the pines it is easily worked with tools but the Shortleaf Pine has a rather exceptional pine ﬁgure depending upon the type of out. It has little resin con— tent. The wood holds nails and screws reasonably well, but shrinks a little morethan the northern pines. 

!Uses
Shortleaf Pine is used extensively in building construction, sash, doors, frames, interior and exterior trim, “knotty pine” ﬁnishing, weather-boarding, wainscoting, boxes, crates, excelsior, agricultural implements, some grades of furniture, cooperage stock, caskets, woodenware, toys, and to some extent for carving and general carpentry purposes. It is also used for paper pulp and, when creosoted,for poles.

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