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Loblolly Pine
It is also called yellow pine, North Carolina pine, and oldfield pine and is the most commercially important forest species in the southern United States. The Loblolly Pine tree, Pinus taeda, is a fast-growing member of the yellow pine group. It is particularly prized for its straight trunk, which contains no knots for up to 30 feet. In urban areas, stands of loblolly pines are used as wind and noise barriers. The Loblolly Pine is a stately tree and is often chosen to use for convenient landscape screening. Loblolly Pine trees can grow up to 100 feet tall and up to three feet in diameter; however, along the coast they seldom rise more than 50 feet. It thrives in a variety of soils, including well-drained upland areas with poor nutrient concentrations to poorly drained lowland areas and abandoned fields. This evergreen conifer has pine needles that are 6 to 9 inches long. ... details
Swamp Chestnut Oak A good shade tree. Swamp Chestnut Oak strongly prefers soils that are moist, permanently moist, or permanently wet, and tolerates standing water (as in periodically inundated floodplains) for several weeks at a time. One of the important timber trees of the South, it grows on moist and wet loamy soils of bottom lands, along streams and borders of swamps. The acorns are sweet and serve as food to wildlife. The Swamp Chestnut Oak tree, Quercus michauxii, is known also as a basket oak for the baskets made from its wood, and cow oak because cows eat the acorns. The high quality wood is used in all kinds of construction and for implements. Swamp chestnut oak trees are deciduous and have leaves that vary from four to eight inches in length, are downy beneath and turn a rich crimson in the fall. Swamp chestnut oak trees are well-formed and become quite large (80 feet tall) with a narrow crown. Good seed crops occur at intervals of 3-5 years with poor to fair production in between. |
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