If I could be a Giant Tree, Long Leaf Pine it would Be!

Being an ancient Wood Affection Handicapped Human, I love the many qualities of this King of all Pines... nearly slaughtered into extinction & lost.

My favorite tree, nearly extinct in mature form, is a Long Leaf Pine Tree with 12" long needles for leaves, 2' long pine cones to seed with, yet in the first 7 years or more of life it barely works its way 7 inches out of the ground from seed. In a deeply shaded forest once upon a time, each tree was once an average of 48" in girth at the base and the e…