Pine Trees

In 1652 the Massachusetts General Court appointed John Hull as mintmaster for the Boston mint and Robert Sanderson as his assistant. It's not known if either one was a silversmith but they were responsible for the Willow Tree, Oak Tree and Pine Tree Coinage.

Yes. They are needle leaf trees just like spruces, firs, hemlocks, larches, cedars, and many others. You can usually tell a pine tree because they will have longer leaves (maybe 3 to 9 inches) than the other needle leaf trees and they are anganged in bundles of 2-5, depending on the species.

You mean carniferous? It's a tree whose leaves change color during Fall. ~Kidiu

When the pine tree meets a nother pine and their roots rub togther.

Biochemistry, light, temperature and water describe why pine trees grow faster in summer than in winter. Reduced daylight, moisture, nutrients and temperature slow sunlit interactions down so that fewer sugars are made for such life-sustaining activities as photosynthesis and respiration in winter. Summer supports growth because of the abundant moisture, high-angled sun and warm temperatures activating enzymes while winter tends to be a time for pine trees to break down and remake proteins, maintain cell membranes and recycle magnesium, nitrogen and phosphates.

The pinyon pine

Pine is a softwood often used in furniture.

Some pine trees can tolerate extreme temperatures but they can be prone to plagues in areas with long hot summers. I've also observed that locations enduring hot summers and recording subfreezing or near freezing temperatures during winter for at least a few hours per year are likely to favor the survival of pine trees. Areas with a temperate climate all year round also seem to make a good habitat for them.

Such a tree would normally be called a broadleaf, and would be a hardwood. Oak and sycamore would be examples. The broadness of a leaf is not a perfect descriptor however; for example, many palms have leaves of 40mm or so wide. Nevertheless, they are not even considered true trees!

my sons the pine tree need 5 hours of sunlight

The fern looks like a plant when the pine tree looks like a normal tree? (I don't weather its correct)

No,it helps the tree grow bigger and stronger.It can also make it grow faster.

cones

Actually, its not Dicotyledones. It is in the Plant Phylum Tracheophyta.

Yes it is. The most common definition of an autotroph is "an organism that can produce its own food using light, water, carbon dioxide, or other chemicals. Because autotrophs produce their own food, they are sometimes called producers." By that definition, a pine tree certainly qualifies.

trees and a shrub

...They're not the same. Maple trees are like regular trees and pine trees are Christmas trees. Maple trees produce syrup that you can eat. Where-as pine trees make sap but you can't eat that.

I cannot find and do not know about any cure for this parasite.

The only treatment I have read about is to kill all visibly infected trees.

This can be done two ways.

One is by individually destroying each infected tree with a very large tracked vehicle that looks like an excavator, and is called a Fecon Bull Hog® -- see picture located on page at:

http://www.landandwater.com/features/vol49no6/vol49no6_1.php

This machine simply grinds up the tree in-place starting from the top down.

A ham-handed approach, no doubt about it, but it seems to at least contain the spread of the parasite.

The second way is to simply clear-cut all infected trees. Obviously not an acceptable solution if you live in a house among the trees and want to keep them.

So we are looking at a pretty grim situation.

The (relatively) good news is that from my own VERY LIMITED and purely PERSONAL experience over the past couple of years, you can manage the infection to a degree. First, clear out ALL underbrush from beneath the tree and for a good radius around it. The underbrush takes a lot of water and nutrients, so if you get rid of it, there's more for the tree. Second, get a good arborist to come in and remove the most heavily infected limbs. This has worked pretty well for a large Coulter pine (a "sugar pine" that has very large cones) about 50 feet tall on my property (which is located near Tehachapi in central-southern California at about 4,500 foot elevation). The tree is NOT cured or mistletoe free by any means, but it looks MUCH better and I think it will survive for many years in a sort of "Mexican standoff" with the parasite.

I would dearly love and be willing to pay large dollars for some sort of chemical spray, pellets, granules, or whatever to kill this parasite.

I am resigned to probably having to wait for some development that hopefully will come out of the logging industry, which is really losing money on pine mistletoe. A consortium of logging companies might be able to fund research into finding a cure, and then recoup some of their investment from folks like me and you that want to save our few precious trees!

less than five years usually. they reach sexual maturity at one year.

You can find a pine tree in a forest but not every state grows them sometimes you have to go to a Christmas tree farm to get one.

hmmm......i belive its the kettle family ; )

I'm told that its right in my home town of Norridgewock, one town over from Skowhegan, on the Martin Stream Road. Its located in a Memorial State Park .. From what I've seen, I'd believe it to be the biggest myself because it is so enormous, I can't imagine another being bigger!

The dormant period from late winter through early spring is the best time to trim pine trees in California. The type of pruning known as pinching of one- to two-thirds of the growth on new, thick shoots, called candles, on branch tips must be done from early to mid-summer. Removal of damaged, dangerous, dead, decaying, diseased, dying tree parts needs to be done in dry weather by cuts into dry wood any time throughout the year if it will not wait until dormancy.

Because Gray Squirrels are severing them to gather them on the ground for their soft inside and ripening seed.