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

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