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May 26, 2016 9:11 AM CST
Name: Sue
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Can you pull off invididual bunches of needles to see how many needles are attached at each base? Looking at the pictures it appears it is a two-needle pine, which would rule out white pine (a 5-needle pine), but pictures can sometimes be deceiving especially if the needles stick together. The needles also look a bit stiff and dark green to be white pine, but the easiest way is to count the needles in each bunch. Unlike spruce, pine needles don't attach to the stem individually and the number of needles per group is used for pine identification.

If it is a two needle pine, then can you bend the two needles to see if they snap in the middle (which would suggest red pine).

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