Table Mountain Pine (P. pungens) is an occasional species at middle elevations with two rigid, twisted needles per bundle and highly distinctive cones. It’s the only pine restricted to the ...

Table mountain pine, Pinus pungens, ... Being a pine, its leaves are in the form of evergreen needles, of course. And as with all pines, the needles are clustered into individual bundles, ...

Table mountain pine has thick, platy bark that is grayish brown to black. The needles of this tree range from yellow to green; they are twisted, and borne into groups of two.

•2. Shortleaf Pine (P. echinata) is an occasional species from low to middle elevations with two to three blue-green flexible needles per bundle that aren’t twisted.

Houses, furniture, paper, pine bark, pine needles, chemical compounds and food products are all made from the pine tree. Many wildlife and plant species depend on the pine forest ecosystem to live.