SHOETLEAF PINE; YELLOW PINE (Pinus echinata, Mill.). 80 to IN feet. Slender-trtinked tree with round or pyramidal head. Bark thick, checked into cinnamon-red, scaly plates. Wood orange or brown, with pale sapwood, coarse, heavy, durable, strong, used for lumber. Sap yields turpentine. Leaves blue-green, 3 to 5 inches long, in Fs and 3's, subtended by close sheath of long, silvery scales. Flowers sub-terminal,
crowded, purplish: staminate orange-brown at first, with abundant pollen; pistillate on opposite, short stems, greenish at first. Fruits oblong-conical, often curved, clustered, about 2 inches long, scales with curved prickles, soon shed. Dist.: Connecticut to Florida; west to Illinois, Kansas, and Texas.