Tree Talk: Eastern White Pine
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2024
- Here's another one for lovers of big trees! Eastern white pine (Pinus strobus) is an immense tree of immense historical, cultural, and economic importance. Once the dominant species of much of the northeastern U.S. and southeastern Canada, the enormous and economically valuable eastern white pine was a driving factor behind European colonial history. Old-growth white pine stands were cleared in the ensuing centuries, and the tree now mostly exists with a cohort of northern hardwood species, which it can eventually tower over. Eastern white pine is ecologically important and still commercially valuable, and is the state tree of Maine and Michigan, the state flower of Maine, and on the flag of Vermont.
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Recorded on 12/2/22 in Wyoming County Pennsylvania, by Allyson Davis, who grew up only a few hundred feet from the specimen we're examining.
One thing you didn't mention is that the needles are edible, and you can make tea with them. Very rich in vitamin C and other antioxidants. The tea is said to have saved early settlers from scurvy during the winter months. In my personal experience, it tastes great and is not really what you'd expect, but you have to cut the ends off where the needles are bunched together, otherwise it will taste like turpentine. It goes great with raw honey.
Thank you.
Will try someday.
Simply amazing. The fact you can walk through the forest and keep a beagle within view point is truly a feat few people are able to accomplish.
I'm lucky; she's a good girl!!
@MrFreeGman We love this Pineneedle tea in my house! Glad to see somebody else has mentioned it! I understand it’s been used by many indigenous people for years to aid in cold/flu and other illnesses because it’s so high in vitamin C!
Its flavor is amazing (as long as you cut the ends off like you mentioned) personally I like to drink it in the evening because it seems to help me sleep better!
Loved this Eastern White Pine tree talk. It's one of my very favorite trees. Another fun thing about them is that by counting the spaces or gaps between those branch whorls you can reliably tell how many years old, within a year or two, the tree is. That's because the buds for each year's branches are at the very tip of the tree and start growing out while the spike grows up, each Spring.
The distance of that space between the branches, from about 12 to 36 inches, is maintained through the life of the tree. So, if you can clearly see the top of the tree you can count back to good and poor growing seasons. Usually good or drought rainfall is the main factor. I've done this with wh. pine saplings I planted 30-plus years ago, and yep, it's true.
Interesting thank you
Clicked as soon as I saw the notification, one of my favorite pines, second to Table Mountain pine.
Very very dominant tree in my area of Northern Ontario, can shake a stick in any direction and youll see these giants, some in pure stands.
Best white pine video out there! If you know of one better, please point me that way.
One of my favorite trees. I had a chunk of land in northern WI that had just a couple big white pines and several dozen large red pines, and in one spot there was a red and a white growing so close together the trunks touched for the first 3 feet off the ground. Ive never seen that before, both trees were about 75 to 80 years old Id like to go back some day to see if they have survived the storms.
Large white pines make for great deer stands, back in the old days we used to just climb up the limbs and trim out a spot to sit about 12' off the ground, no rope, no seat, no safety strap. Young and foolish.
Great video. Very informative and interesting. Also, your beagle is adorable. :)
might want to consider using a separate mic for the speaker so you can get shots of the tree afterwards and edit them into the video with his voice in the background, instead of panning during his speech and losing a bit of the audio from the camera. Enjoy the series, thanks for the info
Absolutely love this video series. So helpful!
Yours are the most comprehensive videos on trees! Thank you so much! I am using your videos to deepen the information I am learning from Penn State Ag Extension online courses.
Excellent video my friend. Born and raised in central Pa myself, there are many monster Pines on family land that are just magnificent. Keep shining light on all of the wonderful trees Pennsylvania has to offer!
These also grow in Western NC too.
Very cool!
We have several 80+ footers on our property in MN. They make tons of baby trees everywhere. Every bad storm though they lose tons of branches and it’s a huge cleanup effort. The sap is very stubborn to wash off skin and clothing. Seems like brittle wood because the low beaches get so long and heavy they snap under their own weight, leaving a bare trunk up to the higher shorter branches. Great video thank you!
I have one random one in my forest near Atlanta that was planted one year we got a plantable Christmas tree. It's a little south of its natural range. It got a head start on all the other trees around it, but is now likely to be outcompeted by the Loblolly pines more suited to the climate.
Thank you for another awesome video!
So helpful and knowledgeable video! I learned so much! 🌳 🌲
I have a White Pine sapling growing in my yard now that a Squirrel planted and forgot here in North Alabama near the Tennessee State line. I'm going to leave it to grow.
New subscriber, ive already watched most of your videos lol very well put together and looking forward to learning more
I’ve been looking for a channel like yours for a while, thank you!
Ps. My last name is Davis too
I did not know it could get to 200 ft or that it had 80% shade tolerance. I have some spruces that are dying out and I see white pine on the ground (mothered by my humongous white pine) and I didn’t think they’d be able to survive in the shade.
Thank you so much for this video! Great info!
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My friend has a dense cluster of seedlings and saplings on her property and I transplant a few each year to more open locations where they can grow to full potential. They are easy to transplant, but need protection afterward from deer, who will snack on them in the springtime. I had a few ruined that way until I began putting up a sturdy wire fence around the new ones. It runs into some money, but I believe it’s worth it - otherwise all that digging and lugging can go to naught.
the best. i'm a huge fan of this channel. thank you for your wisdom!
I admire a few in this one yard and was just looking everywhere to find out what these are, thinking they are some rare or crazy cultivar. Conifer facebook group all said Eastern White Pine. So excited and I'm looking to get some. I love that they get wide, but not TOO WIDE of a canopy, but I can stand up beneath them. I like that they can grow near Black Walnut. I also like how their light green color makes them visible in winter when in front of the dark woods of dormant deciduous trees. But I also read that if they are light green, then they are sick, and theyre being knocked out w needlecast, so now I'm worried and not sure if I should try.
And I like your hound dog!
@@ksero1000 Thanks, Newt is a good girl! As for white pine, I wouldn't let the fear of needlecast prevent you from planting! Needlecast and most diseases don't kill the tree, so it could still be around for hundreds of years!
My mom planted one of these back in 1995, was only 2 feet tall, it's absolutely huge now!
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Very interesting! They do make a mess on my driveway. Not just the needles, but these other small cone shape, tannish/light brown. Are those the seeds?
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Doesn’t the tulip tree get taller than the white pine?
Question: any part of white pine which can be consumed? Heard it cures a lot of illnesses?
Yes! All pines have edible new shoots, inner bark, and young male cones, and tea can be made with the needles. They are high in vitamin C, but I would be cautious in expecting an illness to be cured
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2-3 bundled pine species are much more common than 5-6 bundled 1s worldwide
Want to find to make needle tea rich with vitamin c natives used it for health
Are pines trees sweetable for business, i need trees which i can plant within 8yr and 12th yr are ready to mill....
Honestly this was way to much information for me to digest this drives me away from studying these trees etc I’m so stuck on ineditfy them this didn’t help for me personally
I’m sorry but it was the Native Americans that discovered this continent and not the Europeans.
I own a white pine stands roughly 130ft tall easily, biggest tree I have ever seen myself, she's an absolute monster with a couple "limbs" approaching 2ft.
I can easily fell her as she's about 50ft behind our house meaning if she falls South in a storm she will easily destroy our house. Damned if you and damned if ya don't, especially since I am a firm believer in protecting nature, yet I heat with Wood.
Also I live half hour from almost all the record trees in the mohawk Forest in western mass. We all keep our mouths shut about bigger trees, a family I know have a sugar maple with a trunk easily 8ft plus, my old man has a couple monster maples (tall) white ash easily over 100ft but no true means to accurately measure