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14 unusual facts about pine


British Christmas Tree Growers Association

Entries to the competition are divided into four categories; Pine, Fir, Spruce and Wreath.

Chail Sanctuary

There is a dense cover of Oak and Pine, apart from the other major grassland covers in the area.

Chinese Garden, Zürich

Pine symbolizes the male principle among the trees and a long life.

Coelogyne cristata

After the resting period, when Coelogyne Cristata starts to grow again in the spring, it can be replanted in porous and fibrous material, such as pine bark, charcoal pieces and even a little sphagnum, which are all known to be favorable to the orchids.

Großer Rettenstein

The Rettenstein lies in the Spertental-Rettenstein protected landscape and so Pine, Spruce, Gentian, Willow Gentian, Platenigl, Edelweiss, Monkshood, Rock Ptarmigan, Black Grouse and Capercaillie, Red Deer, Chamois, Ibex and Marmot all occur here.

Margaret Clay Ferguson

Ferguson worked on a variety of systems including Fungi, Pine and Petunia.

Mazatzal Mountains

At Pine, on Arizona State Route 87, at the northeast region of the Mazatzal Wilderness, north terminus of the Mazatzal Mountains, the route traverses the contact between two important geologic units.

Mike Wagner

For a short time, Mike Wagner also served as an assistant coach on the Pine-Richland High School (Gibsonia, PA) coaching staff, mainly working with the defensive backs and special teams.

Nantucket Lightship Basket

Oak, Pine, and Ash are the most traditional type of wood used on baskets, but today many other types are utilized such as cherry and ebony.

Pefkos

The resort is set against a hill which is surrounded by Pine trees from which the town gets its name.

Tanner Moor

A six kilometer long trail leads through the moorland, over bridges and past bogs to highlands of mountain pine (Pinus mugo), whence the entire moor can be viewed.

The moorland is watered exclusively by rain and is almost completely covered with pine trees.

Theinni

Pine forests cover some of the ranges, but, as elsewhere in the Shan states, varieties of the oak and chestnut are the commonest forest trees.

Yablonoi Mountains

Pine forests are quite common on the southern slopes of the range.


Alstonia scholaris

Alstonia scholaris (Apocynaceae, commonly called Blackboard tree, Indian devil tree, Ditabark, Milkwood pine, White cheesewood and Pulai (Bengali:ছাতিম) (Urdu: پھلاہی); syn.

Amy Honey

She has also played shows with such diverse performers as Carolyn Mark, Jenny Whiteley, Chris Brown, Andrew Vincent, The Willowz, Po' Girl, Chet, The Doers, Ida Nilsen, Blood Meridian, Veda Hille, Hank Pine & Lily Fawn, 20 Miles and BJ Snowden.

Anne Gwynne

Gwynne Gilford's children are actress Katherine Pine and actor Chris Pine.

Dalaba

The French botanist Auguste Chevalier experimented with the planting of certain pine species in the vicinity of Dalaba in the early 1900s.

Devil's Gate Pass

Besides the dominant Artemisia tridentata (Big Sage) and Purshia tridentata (Bitterbrush) noteworthy large plants include Juniperus occidentalis (Western Juniper), Pinus jeffreyi (Jeffrey Pine), Cercocarpus ledifolius (Curl Leaf Mountain Mahogany), and the picturesque Populus tremuloides (Quaking Aspen).

Diphasiastrum

Diphasiastrum digitatum Fan Clubmoss, Southern Running-pine, or Running Cedar (eastern Canada, northeastern United States)

Emory Peak

High-desert flora and fauna including alligator juniper (Juniperus deppeana), pinyon pine (Pinus cembroides), mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus), prickly pear cacti (Opuntia spp.), Mexican Jay (Aphelocoma wollweberi), sotol (Dasylirion leiophyllum), and Texas madrone (Arbutus xalapensis) may be seen along the trail.

Fox Photo

In the chase scene(s) in Back to the Future, the Libyan terrorists crash their van into a Fox Photo booth at the Twin Pines/Lone Pine Mall.

Gary Pine

Gary Pine is a Jamaican singer best known for the vocals on several Bob Sinclar songs, including "Love Generation", "Shining from Heaven", "Miss Me", "Give a Lil' Love", and "Sound of Freedom".

Haarmann

Mala Gaonkar Haarmann, American businessman, partner and managing director at Lone Pine Capital, LLC

Hansen, Wisconsin

the streams are fed by the swamps and are subject to very sudden rise & fall the timber is of various kinds such as soft-maple sugar Pine (TamaracK & alder in the swamps) Linn Oak Ash Ironwood +c, the stone are a Blue Flint.

Henry Baigent

The principal timber milled was white, red, and black pine, totara, rimu, and birch.

Herty, Texas

The area is named after Dr. Charles Herty, a Georgia chemist that developed the first process to create paper from southern pine.

Joun

Monastery Saint (in Arabic دير المخلص) of the Melkite Basilian Salvatorian Order was built on a hill covered with pine and olive trees and grape vines and located in the east side of Joun beginning of the eighteenth century, and it constitutes a landmark in the Chouf district.

Karakar Pass

The 45 km-long road from Pir Baba (RA) to Barikot passes through Mount Ilam rising through mature pine forests to Karakar Pass.

Lalim

It is supported by the affluents of the River Varosa, which snake through the municipality of Lamego, forming an accidented relief and dense vegetation of pine, chestnut, heather (Ericaceae), carqueja, tojo, giestas and mimosas trees.

Merced Falls, California

A pair of sawmills in Merced Falls cut wood for the Yosemite and Sugar Pine Lumber Company, which shipped lumber down from the Sierra Nevada on the Yosemite Valley Railroad.

Mission Creek, Minnesota

The center of Mission Creek is generally considered at the junction of Pine County 61 with Tie Road, and Railroad Lane; located in the northern portion of Mission Creek Township (population 635).

Monochamus

While sawyer beetles are economically insignificant by themselves, some species are known to transport phoretic Bursaphelenchus nematodes, including B. xylophilus which causes pine wilt disease.

MV Cape Pine

Cape Pine is still afloat, having been sold to the Maritime Heritage Society in Vancouver, and is in operation as a private pleasure boat and charter boat out of Pender Harbour, British Columbia, Canada.

Neighborhoods in Manchester, New Hampshire

The Highlands is a largely suburban neighborhood that developed along the prewar streetcar line to Pine Island Park.

Nelson Coast temperate forest

In the less fertile rocks areas there are yellow pine (Halocarpus biformis) and Dracophyllums including the endemic D. townsonii and the mountain neinei (D. traversii).

Nichols Canyon, Los Angeles

Expanded to the present 2 bd/2ba configuration, the interior now features a rustic antique heart pine interior,inspired by James Cagney's 1930 cabin in Lake Arrowhead.

Oenopia conglobata

The species lives in mixed forests of the lower altitudes, being found mainly on poplar, pine, larch, and Prunus species such as bird cherries.

Pine Brook, Minnesota

Pine Brook is located in Wyanett Township and Springvale Township.

Pine nut oil

Pine nut oil, also called pine seed oil or cedar nut oil, is a vegetable oil, extracted from the edible seeds of several species of pine.

Pine Ridge, Nebraska

Whiteclay, Nebraska, known to the U.S. Census Bureau as "Pine Ridge, Nebraska"

Pine Ridge, Oklahoma

There is also a winery east of Pine Ridge on the Ozark Trail (Woods and Waters Winery and Vineyard).

Pinus cembra

Pinus cembra, also known as Swiss pine, Swiss stone pine or Arolla pine, is a species of pine tree that grows in the Alps and Carpathian Mountains of central Europe, in Poland (Tatra Mountains), Switzerland, France, Italy, Austria, Germany, Slovenia, Slovakia (Tatra Mountains), Ukraine and Romania.

Pinus contorta

Suillus tomentosus, a fungus, produces specialized structures called tuberculate ectomycorrhizae with the roots of lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta var. latifolia).

Pinus longaeva

An introduced fungal disease known as white pine blister rust (Cronartium ribicola) is believed to affect some individuals.

Pinus palustris

The scientific name meaning, "of marshes," is a misunderstanding on the part of Philip Miller who described the species, after seeing Longleaf Pine forests with temporary winter flooding.

Pluteus nevadensis

Pluteus nevadensis is known only from subtropical and pine forests in the states of Guerrero and Jalisco, Mexico, where it grows on the rotting wood of pine and oak.

Pozuelo de Alarcón

It is surrounded by large Mediterranean pine-tree forests: la Casa de Campo, el Monte del Pardo and el Monte del Pilar.

Ribes oxyacanthoides

This plant is an alternate host for the white pine blister rust (Cronartium ribicola), the vector of a pine tree disease.

Rock, Wood County, Wisconsin

The general character of this Township is 2d & 3d rate the soil is mostly poor loam & sand, the timber is mostly Birch Oak Aspen TamaracK & Pine the Pine is 2d growth & very poor.

Roman commerce

Very exceptionally, as at Berenice, there is evidence of long distance trade in pepper, almonds, hazelnuts, stone pine cones, walnuts, coconuts, apricots and peaches besides the more expected figs, raisins and dates (Cappers).

Sherry, Wisconsin

This Township is heavily Timbered with Maple Oak Birch & Pine Maple Oak & Birch being the prevailing Kinds - along the Border(?) of Mill Creek there is some good scattering Pine - along the Border(?) of the small stream (?) almost invariably(?) find alder thickets caused by Beaver dams.

Stoney Down

Much of the woodland is mixed, but there are also significant stands of pine, Douglas fir and larch.

Tresco Abbey Gardens

The first were mainly deciduous trees such as, elm (Ulmus sp), sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus), oak (Rubus sp) and poplar (Poplar sp), and later he planted Monterey cypress (Cupressus macrocarpa) and Monterey pine (Pinus radiata) which are fast growing and suited to coastal conditions.

Tuggeranong Parkway

The next few kilometres of roadway continue past the National Arboretum and through pine plantations while veering southwards, before crossing over the Molonglo River just to the north of the next interchange with Cotter Road.

William Durant

William West Durant (1850–1934), architect and developer of camps in the Adirondack Great Camp style, including Camp Pine Knot and Sagamore Camp

Winnacunnet High School

The name Winnacunnet is a Native American word that means "beautiful place in the pines".

Woodmohr, Wisconsin

Sections 17, 18, 19, 20, 29 and 30, and parts of sections 7, 8, 16, 21 & 28 are covered with Aspen thickets and Oak Brush with a soil similar to the East side of the Township The remainder of the lands lying along the Streams in the center and South West part are mostly Bur Oak & Pitch(?) Pine Openings having a more sandy soil than(?) the more thickly timbered portions.

WVFJ-FM

Despite the move, the station still broadcasts from its tower atop Pine Mountain just south of Manchester on State Route 190.