Leaves: The White pine is a five-needle pine. The needles are slender and soft to the touch, 2"-5" long, soft and pliable with finely toothed margins. The leaves are bluish-green appearing whitish in the distance.

LOCATION

Owner: University of Georgia
Nominated by: Bob Barker
Accessible: Yes, South Campus east side of Cedar St. as it turns north on the Food Science campus, and across from the power plant complex
Coordinates: State Plane
GA West NAD83 (feet)
E: 2,537,373 N: 1,436,362


Notes: In its optimum habitat, the White Pine grows to be the largest and most majestic of the eastern conifers (fir and spruce included). White Pine blister rust and the White Pine weevil are serious threats to the tree, where the weevil kills the terminal bud causing erratic crown development and the moniker "cabbage pine". Better suited to the northern tier of states from Michigan east, forest grown White Pine can grow to over 100' and develop long straight and self-pruned boles making them highly prized for forest products. They were often selected as "the Kings timber" during the American Revolution, and some remained so marked as late as 1956 (as witnessed just north of Middlebury VT). White Pine does reasonably well in the Georgia Piedmont as specimen trees in large landscape situations.

Bark: Thin, smooth grayish-green when young. With age, a dark gray-brown bark deeply furrowed with broad scaly 1"-2" thick ridges.

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