POND PINE; MARSH PINE (Pinus serotina, Michx.). 40 to 90 feet. Open-headed, water-loving tree, with stout, gnarled branches, orange when young, becoming dark brown. Trunk with red-brown bark, thin, scaly, with fissures wide apart. Wood heavy, resinous, soft, dark orange, yielding some tur pentine and lumber in North Carolina. Leaves in bundles of 3's (rarely 4's), dark yellow-green, 6 to 8 inches long, falling in the third or fourth year. Flowers staminate in orange
colored spikes; pistillate in paired cones, on short stems. Fruit nearly globular or oblong, 2 inches long, with thin, nearly flat scales armed with slender, incurved prickles, which are shed. Cones hang long after ripe. Dist.: Low land from North Carolina to the St. John's River, Florida, usually growing with the longleaf pine.