Lost Pines of Texas provenance displayed extreme crookedness compared to the Atlantic Coastal Plain provenance at a common garden in Scotland County, NC.Massive witches’ broom in a >100 year old loblolly pine.Oldest longleaf pine in North Carolina (>470 years) at Weymouth Woods, NC. The historical owner named the stand “round timber”, apparently because the lack of taper (high form class) in these old growth trees.Massive eastern hemlock in Pennsylvania above a red spruce bog.Silver birch seed orchard in British Columbia.Oak with large burls on trail to Station Cove Falls, SC.Seed orchard in New Brunswick.Stumbled across an old selection in a progeny test at Piedmont Forestry Center, South Carolina.Second-generation longleaf pine selection from a North Carolina Forest Service progeny test.Witches’ broom in a longleaf pine at Carolina Beach State Park.Driftwood beach, a ghost forest at Jekyll Island State Park.Burnt behemoth in Sequoia National Park (can you see me standing at the base?).Dwarf pine from the NCSU Pinus taeda ‘Nana’ collection, at Juniper Level Botanical Gardens. Estimated age 60 years.Witches’ broom on a loblolly pine, Black Creek Greenway in Cary, NC (35.788699, -78.806723)
