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This is a juvenile longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) it has just gotten past the point of the grass like state. Longleaf pines are able to stay in the grass state for many years, the advantage to staying in the grass state is that the needles are so tightly bounded that they will not die in a wildfire. The needles that are burnt off will grow back quickly. During the grass state the longleaf pine will focus on its’ root system, there have been cases of longleaf pines staying in this state up to 20 years. On average though they stay in the grass state for 5 to 15 years. This photo is in the “bottlebrush” stage this process happens in just a few months because the tree wants to get past the place where it would be killed in a fire. This state will last a few years and it is when the tree is at its’ most vulnerable state. The habitats that they are best suited for are: montane, sandhill, rolling hill, and flatwoods/savannas. High densities of adult longleaf pine trees can suppress juvenile growth indirectly by increasing many pathogens. Yet, the reason that longleaf are able to be dominate is due to the fire resistance juvenile like this one. There is lots of evidence that the trees are in “discrete clumps”. Throughout our walk in the woods each time we saw a juvenile there was always another one close by. There was one clump of about 15 longleaf pines in the bottlebrush state all together.
longleafalliance.org/what-is-longleaf/the-tree
www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2261152.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3...
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This is a juvenile longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) it has just gotten past the point of the grass like state. Longleaf pines are able to stay in the grass state for many years, the advantage to staying in the grass state is that the needles are so tightly bounded that they will not die in a wildfire. The needles that are burnt off will grow back quickly. During the grass state the longleaf pine will focus on its’ root system, there have been cases of longleaf pines staying in this state up to 20 years. On average though they stay in the grass state for 5 to 15 years. This photo is in the “bottlebrush” stage this process happens in just a few months because the tree wants to get past the place where it would be killed in a fire. This state will last a few years and it is when the tree is at its’ most vulnerable state. The habitats that they are best suited for are: montane, sandhill, rolling hill, and flatwoods/savannas. High densities of adult longleaf pine trees can suppress juvenile growth indirectly by increasing many pathogens. Yet, the reason that longleaf are able to be dominate is due to the fire resistance juvenile like this one. There is lots of evidence that the trees are in “discrete clumps”. Throughout our walk in the woods each time we saw a juvenile there was always another one close by. There was one clump of about 15 longleaf pines in the bottlebrush state all together.
longleafalliance.org/what-is-longleaf/the-tree
www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2261152.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3...