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Slash Pine
Mature Height: Slash pine (Pinus elliottii) will reach 100 feet at maturity.
Growth Rate: This species grows fast (more than 2 feet per year).

 


slash pine Pinaceae Pinus elliottii Engelm.   symbol: PIEL
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Slash pine cones
Location
Pinus elliottii var. elliottii occurs naturally in moist situations such as swamps, low hammocks, sloughs, along streams, on barrier islands and in pine flatwoods where it may be the only tree species.

slash pine (Pinus elliottii) has relatively large symmetrical cones (7-20 cm long) that are borne on short stalks. Its leaves are relatively long (15-30 cm long) and borne in groups of two or three (usually in twos).

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Caribbean Slash Pine [English]: Pinus caribaea
Caribbean Snakeroot [English]: Rauvolfia viridis
Caribbean Snoutbean [English]: Rhynchosia caribaea
Caribbean Snowcap Daylily [English]: Hemerocallis 'Caribbean Snowcap' ...

Pinus elliotii - Slash Pine
Pinus flexilis - Limber Pine
Pinus glabra - Spruce Pine
Pinus halepensis - Aleppo Pine
Pinus jeffreyi - Jeffrey Pine
Pinus lambertiana - Sugar Pine ...

ECOLOGICAL THREAT: While carrotwood invades a variety of natural communities, including dunes, coastal strand, sand pine scrub, slash pine flatwoods, cypress swamps, freshwater marshes and river banks, ...

Habitat: Poorly drained flatwoods that are occsionaly burned or mowed with slash pine and saw palmetto
Range: Now known from only a few locations in Volusia county Florida
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strangler fig (Ficus aurea), gumbo-limbo (Bursera simaruba), mahogany (Swietenia mahagoni), saw palmetto, pond cypress (Taxodium ascendens), bald cypress (Taxodium distichum), moonvine (a morning glory), coontie, and various willows, slash pine ...

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Slash Pine (Pinus elliotti) - no pictures
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Pinus elliottii (Slash Pine, Honduras Pine)
Pinus flexilis (Limber Pine)
Pinus halepensis (Aleppo Pine)
Pinus heldreichii var. leucodermis (Bosnian pine)
Pinus jeffreyi (Jeffrey Pine)
Pinus koraiensis (Korean Pine)
Pinus lambertiana (Sugar Pine) ...

It and the faster growing slash pine (P. caribaea) of the same region have gained importance as northern pine stands have been depleted. The latter is widely cultivated in tropical areas with sandy soils.

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Slash pine Pinus elliotti Engelm. (Category 2)
Small round - leaved prickly pear Opuntia lindheimeri Engelm. (Category 1)
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See also: Pine, Pinus, May, Green, Evergreen

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