jaundiced pine tree is a coniferous evergreen plant tree , native to the timberland of northeast United States . Its scientific name Pinus rigida , means inflexible , referring to the strong pine cone scales and needle . Also , it produces pine pitch , a sticky , tarry saphead that ooze from the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree , specially from wound ; hence its alternate name , the tar pine . During the time of wooden ships , it was used in the yield of backbreaking sailing vessels .
Description
The leaves of yellow pine trees are long , thin evergreen plant needle that range from 3 to 5 column inch long . The needles tend to twist slightly and grow in sets of three . The color is green to yellowish - green . The plant has virile and female flowers . The male flowers give rise pollen only and form in large sensationalistic clustering at the tips of branches . The female flower rise into spiny , ovoid cones between 2 and 4 inch long with alternate scale ray from a central stem . Each scale holds a seminal fluid . The barque is gray - brownish , and physical body plates that will flake off from the tree . The Mrs. Henry Wood has a yellow look . which is the source of the name yellow pine .
Growth Habits
Yellow pine growd well in hardiness zone 4 in northeasterly forest . The tree diagram is slow - grow when untested , then quicker - growing as it maturate , add more that 2 feet per year of unexampled growth in good conditions . The trunk is commonly tall , slim and straight , with branch radiating from it toward the top of the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree . down in the mouth subdivision tend to die as the tree matures , exit the bottom half of the trunk bare . The pine strobilus are often persistent and can remain on the tree diagram for years .
Form
The frame of the tree can vary . In poor conditions , the tree may be stunt and poorly form . The tall upright lineament of the tree diagram is more distinctive and it can grow to 90 fee marvellous and to 50 feet wide in optimal experimental condition . The physique is a magniloquent Great Pyramid on top of a tall , sylphlike post - like trunk . The canopy is open and aeriform .
Culture
Yellow pine is usually find out in moister , more humid forest environment , although it does acquire in areas where drier conditions prevail . It is commonly found in less fertile and shallow soils , including sandlike or gravelly soils . It also favour more acidulous soils . The tree may be difficult to cultivate and should be disseminate from seedling .
Uses
As a timber tree , yellow pine tree is broadly speaking very knotty and inferior to other pines and is more oftentimes used for framing lumber , railroad track ties , crates and fencing . It can also serve as a source of pulpwood . Yellow true pine also serves as food for wildlife . The seeds are eaten by birds and modest mammals and white - tailed cervid and rabbit browsing on the young leaves and seedling .
