Pine Trees

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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.

Nick Rodgers

A wide variety of pine trees are used for Christmas trees in the US. White Pines are common.

My pine tree stump recently shedded it’s outer 2 inch thick bark husk. As you see in the photo below the stump is covered in thick, hard razor sharp thorns. I’ve never seen this. Is this normal? Thanks in advance.

House plants which are poisnous to budgies are : Primula, vomit nut tree ( strychnos vomica ), catharanthus, crown of thorns(euphorbia milii), dieffenbachia ( all variaties), yew ( taxus), hyacinth, periwinkle ( vinca minor ), nightshade ( the whole night shade family including petunia ), Screw palm ( pendanus sp.), Narcissus, oleander, ardisia berries , Christmas rose, croton ( codiaeum variegatum ) and ornamental asparagus. THESE ARE ALL FROM THE BOOK " the bugerigar" about pets . i hope this helps you .

No, from the bark of Willow trees. The correct name of Aspirin is Acetyl Salicidic Acid the correct name of the Willow is Salix.

Ireland has lots of trees, because it has the kind of environment that can support them. At one time very large areas of Ireland were covered in trees. There is still a lot of forest in Ireland.

Oh, dude, the Pomo Indians pruned oak and pine trees to promote the growth of straight branches for making tools and structures. It's like giving your hair a little trim to keep it healthy and looking good. So, yeah, they were basically the original tree stylists of the forest.

Yes, some plants have evolved sharp spines or thorns on their leaves as a defense mechanism against herbivores. These structures help protect the plant from being eaten and may also deter animals from getting too close. Additionally, spines can also help reduce water loss by creating a boundary layer of still air around the plant, which can help regulate transpiration.

Witches broom.

It is a symptom of woody plants where compact clusters of numerous twigs and branches are formed. The mass of shoots comes from a common point, giving a broom-like appearance. The witches broom may last several years. Although some people consider witches broom unsightly, serious injury seldom results. Witches brooms can be caused by various sources including mites, viruses, fungi, mistletoes, insects, and nematodes. Knowing the type of host plant can help determine the cause of the witches broom..

You can get one made for that like the Flexrake 24' Pine Needle Rake.

The ever green and coniferous, resinous trees (and rarely, shrubbery...) known as pines are "native" to most regions of the Northern Hemisphere- although the Sumatran pine crosses the Equator as far as 2 degrees, South.