How to Use longleaf pine in a Sentence

longleaf pine

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Definition of longleaf pinenext
  • Or to learn that the lustrous floor is made of boards of longleaf pine, salvaged from the original floor joists.
    — Michael J. Lewis, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2020
  • The dry and sandy soil needed to dig the burrows is found on sandhills under dry oak and longleaf pine trees.
    — National Geographic, 2 Mar. 2020
  • In the Bronx, Curtis is trying the spruce pine and the graceful longleaf pine, both native to southern states.
    — Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2020
  • The eastern indigo snake is a lynchpin species in the longleaf pine forests.
    — Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 30 Oct. 2019
  • Fields of leathery saw palmettos and stands of longleaf pine trees are pocked with ponds and marshes.
    — Jennifer Weeks, Discover Magazine, 11 Mar. 2012
  • The longleaf pine’s branches arch toward the sky, each bud bursting with spindly green fingers.
    — Adithi Ramakrishnan, Dallas News, 24 July 2023
  • And when flammable grasses burn in the U.S. Southeast, they fuel fires that maintain longleaf pine forests.
    — H. Resit Akcakaya, The Conversation, 7 Nov. 2019
  • The longleaf pine, with its tufts of needles, some 18 inches long, looks a little like the bearskin hat worn by the Queen’s Guard, stuck on a teetering rack.
    — Michael Tortorello, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2018
  • The coil basketry technique can be done with longer pine needles (like longleaf pine and loblolly pine).
    — Tim MacWelch, Popular Science, 26 Dec. 2019
  • This plant species is endemic to a small stretch of wet longleaf pine habitat in the sand hills and coastal plains of the Carolinas, United States.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 1 June 2021
  • Loss and fragmentation of the longleaf pine ecosystem has led to a decline in the number of pinesnakes.
    — Sara Sneath, NOLA.com, 6 Apr. 2018
  • The resilience of longleaf pine forests can have cumulative benefits for the health of the planet, too.
    — Jamie Dickman, Popular Science, 14 June 2023
  • Behind the building lies his next project: 20 acres of longleaf pine savanna.
    — Michael Tortorello, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2018
  • These woods weren’t composed of the original longleaf pines of an ancient, old-growth forest.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2023
  • As sitting is uncomfortable for him, the 80-year old man stood behind a large longleaf pine.
    — Russell Worth Parker, Outdoor Life, 11 May 2023
  • Frosted flatwoods salamanders used to be more common in the South’s longleaf pine forests.
    — Molly Samuel, ajc, 5 Feb. 2022
  • The device has previously come to rest in swamps and rice paddies and tangled itself 60 feet up in a longleaf pine.
    — Douglas Fox, Discover Magazine, 5 June 2012
  • These monoliths face three longleaf pine trees and are surrounded by a grove of tupelo trees.
    — Bebe Howorth, ELLE Decor, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Southern trees like crape myrtle and longleaf pine didn’t have enough mentions to make the final cut but would have been among the most-Southern things in the entire database.
    — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2022
  • In my opinion Solon Dixon and the Longleaf Alliance, which is based there, are two of the finest longleaf pine research organizations in the country.
    — Birmingham Botanical Gardens, AL.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Felled longleaf pines lay atop portions of it, applying immense pressure, but the cables hadn’t snapped.
    — Longreads, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Though invasive species have popped up in the preserve, LCWA has worked to eradicate exotics and restore the natural longleaf pine forest at the top of the land.
    — Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 2 July 2021
  • They are mostly found in longleaf pine forests, which have declined dramatically over the past 200 years.
    — Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 1 Aug. 2022
  • While the park’s azaleas bloom in early spring and present picturesque scenery, another notable aspect of this park is the longleaf pine trees that tower over live oaks.
    — Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Sep. 2022
  • For the Alabama piece, someone sent him a slab of longleaf pine that had come down in a hurricane in a national park in Florida.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 July 2022
  • The report also found old and mature stands in other open forest types, such as oak woodlands of the Southwest and longleaf pine savannas of the southeast.
    — Bygabriel Popkin, science.org, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Here is a look at the state tree for every state across America: Alabama Alabama's state tree is the southern longleaf pine.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The paper is based on a highly fragmented habitat found in the American South, the longleaf pine savanna.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 28 Sep. 2019
  • Fallen longleaf pines, snapped like twigs by the Hurricane’s fierce winds, remain untouched across huge swaths of Calhoun County’s 574 square miles.
    — Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2019
  • The eastern indigo snake used to rule Alabama’s longleaf pine forests as the apex predator, reaching lengths of up to nine feet, and feeding on copperheads and rattlesnakes.
    — Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 31 Dec. 2020

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