CUBAN PINE; SWAMP PINE (Pinus Caribea, Morelet). 80 to 120 feet. Tall, tapering trunk and dense, round head of heavy limbs. Bark brown, scaly, showing orange in the fur rows between broad plates. Wood heavy, very hard, resin ous, coarse, dark orange with pale, thick sapwood. Yields turpentine. Uses of wood same as longleaf pine. Leaves in t's and 3's, stout, dark green, 8 to 12 inches long, in thin, brown sheaths, and persistent 2 years. Flowers in January:
staminate in curved, purplish spikes, crowded near tips of twigs; pistillate oval cones, clustered, pinkish, in 3's, z inch long. , Fruits tapering cones, 3 to 6 inches long, red-brown, the thin scales armed with small, curved prickles; seeds mottled, winged. Dist.: Coast plain, South Carolina to Florida and Louisiana; also Bahamas and the Antilles, Central America.