Pinus serotina

• BOTANICAL NAME: Pinus serotina
• COMMON NAME: Pond Pine
• FAMILY: Pinaceae
• NATIVITY: Coastal plains and southeastern US
• GROWTH HABIT:  45-75’
• HARDINESS:  USDA Zone 7 to 9
• OPTIMUM GROWING CONDITIONS:  Wet soils and full sun, needs large amounts of water, often found growing out of lakes.
• SUCCESSIONAL STATUS:  Climax
• FACULTATIVE STATUS:  Obligate
• LANDSCAPE VALUE:  Nice tree to use around lakes and ponds, grows to a full height.
• FOLIAGE:  Needles are clumped in threes connected to a fascicle, needles are 3 to 5” long.
• BUDS:  Waxy in appearance often many in one area.
• BARK:  Rough and scaly; reddish gray in color and extremely flaky.
• FRUIT:  Cones are conic-ovoid and persistent; each scale has an incurved prickle.  Relatively short.
• PESTS:  Root rot, dieback, and stem blister rust