Buds enable pitch and shortleaf pines to recover from injury

S. Little; H. A. Somes

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Buds enable pitch and shortleaf pines to recover from injury

Informally Refereed

Authors:

S. Little, H. A. Somes

Year:

1956

Type:

Science Perspectives

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

Station Paper NE-81. Upper Darby, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 14 p.

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Abstract

Pitch and shortleaf pines often survive severe damage by fires, cutting, rabbits, or deer. Deer may take all but 2 inches of the 6- to 8-inch shoots of seedlings, and still these seedlings may live and develop new shoots. Fires may kill all the foliage and terminal shoots on sapling or pole-size stems, but still these trees may green up and develop new leaders. Many of the pines in southern New Jersey today have two or more crooks where past fires killed 1 to 3 feet of their leaders.

Citation

Little, S.; Somes, H. A. 1956. Buds enable pitch and shortleaf pines to recover from injury. Station Paper NE-81. Upper Darby, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 14 p.