LOBLOLLY PINE; OLD-FIELD PINE (Pinua flan, Linn.) 80 to 100 feet. Tall, deep-rooted tree, narrowly pyramidal, of very quick growth. Bark bright reddish brown, scaly, with broad ridges. Branchlets yellow-brown. Wood soft, weak, very resinous, coarse-grained, brown, used in building ships, docks, cars, and houses. Excellent fuel. Leaves in 3's, slender, stiff, twisted, pale green, glaucous, falling during their third season; length, 6 to 9 inches. Thin basal sheath close. Flowers March-April; staminate in crowded spikes, yellow, with abundant pollen: pistillate lateral, 1 to 3 oval, scaly cones, below tip of new shoot. Fruit ovate-oblong cone,
3 to 5 inches long, reddish brown, with thin scales bearing short, stout spines; seed triangular, with long, thin, shining wing; 2 under each scale, shed irregularly; empty cones per sisting another year. Dist.: New Jersey to Florida and Texas following the coast; inland from the Carolinas to Arkansas and Louisiana.