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Table Mountain pine,[2] Pinus pungens, also called hickory pine, prickly pine,[2] or mountain pine,[3] is a small pine native to the Appalachian Mountains in the United States.

Table Mountain pine Pinus pungens
Cultivated specimen Morton Arboretum acc. 255-86-3
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
(unranked):	Gymnosperms
Division:	Pinophyta
Class:	Pinopsida
Order:	Pinales
Family:	Pinaceae
Genus:	Pinus
Subgenus:	P. subg. Pinus
Section:	P. sect. Trifoliae
Subsection:	P. subsect. Australes
Species:	P. pungens
Binomial name
Pinus pungens Lamb.
Natural range

Description

Pinus pungens is a tree of modest size (6–12 metres (20–39 ft)), and has a rounded, irregular shape. The needles are in bundles of two, occasionally three, yellow-green to mid green, fairly stout, and 4–7 centimetres (1+1⁄2–3 in) long. The pollen is released early compared to other pines in the area which minimizes hybridization. The cones are very short-stalked (almost sessile), ovoid, pale pinkish to yellowish buff, and 4–9 centimetres (1+1⁄2–3+1⁄2 in) long; each scale bears a stout, sharp spine 4–10 millimetres (5⁄32–25⁄64 in) long. Sapling trees can bear cones in as little as 5 years.

Buds ovoid to cylindric, red-brown, 6–9 millimetres (15⁄64–23⁄64 in), resinous.[4]

P. pungens prefers dry conditions and is mostly found on rocky slopes, favoring higher elevations, from 300–1,760 metres (980–5,770 ft) altitude. It commonly grows as single scattered trees or small groves, not in large forests like most other pines, and needs periodic disturbances for seedling establishment. The three tallest known ones are in Paris Mountain State Park, South Carolina; they are 26.85 to 29.96 metres (88 ft 1 in to 98 ft 4 in) tall[4]

In culture

Pinus pungens is the Lonesome Pine of the 1908 novel The Trail of the Lonesome Pine by John Fox, and popularized in the Laurel and Hardy film Way out West:

On the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia

On the Trail of the Lonesome Pine

Several "Lonesome Pine" hiking trails have been waymarked in the Blue Ridge Mountains and elsewhere in the Appalachians.

References

• Farjon, A. & Frankis, M. P. (2002). Pinus pungens. Curtis's Botanical Magazine 19: 97-103.

External links

• Flora of North America: Pinus pungens info and P. pungens Range Map
• Pinus pungens images at bioimages.vanderbilt.edu

На других языках

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[de] Pinus pungens

Pinus pungens ist ein immergrüner Nadelbaum aus der Gattung der Kiefern (Pinus) mit meist 5 bis 7 Zentimeter langen, in Gruppen von zwei oder seltener drei wachsenden Nadeln und 5 bis 10 Zentimeter langen Samenzapfen. Das natürliche Verbreitungsgebiet liegt in den Appalachen im Südosten der Vereinigten Staaten. Sie wird in der Roten Liste der IUCN als nicht gefährdet eingestuft. Die Art ist wirtschaftlich nur wenig bedeutend und wird als Feuerholz und zur Herstellung von Zellstoff genutzt.

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- [en] Table mountain pine

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[ru] Сосна колючая

Сосна колючая[1] (лат. Pinus pungens) — североамериканский вид растений рода Сосна (Pinus) семейства Сосновые (Pinaceae).

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