Slash Pine

_{Slash Pine Cones}

_{Slash Pine Bark}

Common Names in Use

• Slash Pine (Ala., Miss.,Ga., Fla.)

• Bastard Pine (Fla., Miss., Ala., in part)

• Cuban Pine

• Meadow Pine (Fla., eastern Miss. in part)

• Pitch Pine (Fla.)

• Saltwater Pine (Fla.)

• She Pitch Pine (Ga)

• She Pine (Ga., Fla.)

• Spruce Pine (southern Ala.)

• Southern Pine (trade)

• Swamp Pine (Fla., Miss., Ala. in part)

• Yellow Slash Pine

Growth Range

The growth range of Slash Pine extends from the southern part of South Carolina westward through southern Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and southeastern Louisiana, and southward through Florida, and is also found in the West Indies and Central America. This tree grows best on low, poorly drained flats near bays and swamps.

The Wood

The heartwood is a rich orange to light brown or tan color with moderately thick light yellowish tinged sapwood. It is very heavy, the heaviest of all the pines, very stiff, strong, hard, straight-grained, uniform in texture and very resinous. It has no prominent figure. It nails hard, glues well and shrinks moderately.

_{Pinus Caribaea (Morelet) by Romeyn B. Hough - Plate 125.}

Uses

Slash Pine outranks all other southern pines in the production of naval stores, pine oils, etc. When treated with creosote it is used extensively for posts and poles. The wood is used for heavy general construction, ship building, sheathing and other common lumber uses where a high resin content is not objectionable. Considerable quantities of the wood especially of the younger trees are used for paper pulp.

Bibliography

Shelley E. Schoonover (American Woods) 1951 (Watling & Co. ) Santa Monica, CA