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The "Yellow Pine" at Santa Barbara, Durango
Number of needles per fascicle: 3,3,4,3,4,4,3,3,3,3,3,4,3,3
Bark: jig-saw type, just like Yellow Pine
Cones: New and old both on tree; distributed in whorls of 2-4 around
the branch. One old cone was 9cm lone and 7cm wide.
Scales fairly thick.
Tips thickened.
No stalk.
Foliage: in dense thickets near end of limbs:
Needle length: 30-32cm.
Quite common here and all through E. side of Sierra Madre Occ
Very heavily logged for lumber.
Fascicles very scaly (looks bound: -> ! )
Needles green, with whitish streaks underneath
The "Lodgepole Pine" at Santa Barbara, Durango
Number of needles per fascicle: 3,3,4,3,3,3,4,3,3
Bark: like a Red Fir. Not jig-saw at all. Dark ( or sugar Pine-deep
red underneath; furri
Cones: Only "old" ones noted on tree, scattered here and
there singly. One cone 5.5cm lone by 4.5cm wide.
No prickles. Scales fairly thick.
Tip of scales thickened. Has a short stalk->
Fascicles not scaly
Needles green.
Foliage not dense, in small clumps
Needle length: 6-9 cm.
Not logged.