White pine tree facts

The bark for the white pine is drakening withas the tree ages, it is smooth and gray on young growth, becoming gray-brown,deeply furrowed with broad ridges of irregularly rectangular, purple-tinged scaly plates. The branches are worled, few and spreading, with slightly up turned tips. In closed stands, trunks are free of branches over 2/3 of their length. The twigs are slender, flexible, pale red-brown, with rusty hairs when young; aging gray and smooth. The needles are soft, flexible, blue-green; 2"~4" long, 3-sided, in bundles of five. Evergreen. The buds are heavily resinous and sticky, aromatic. The cones are slender and thornless, 3"~10" long and tapering; each scale usually bears two winged seeds as do all native pines. The roots are widespreading and moderately deep, without a distinct taproot. As the tree ages exceeding 400 years are possible; commonly reaches 200 years of age and may exceed up to 450 years. The height of mature trees in nature 80"~100"; largest eastern conifer. It can spread to 20'~40'. If planting a white pine tree you should bury it(half way not completely) for an year or two before the next step. The second step is that you should get a 3" radius aroulnd the tree clearing all the grass around it and place 3' of much that would cover the whole area. Then water it a little. It could get diseased by the White Pine Blister Rust which is a type of fungal disease. It occurs oon a veriety of sites from wet bogs and moist steambottoms to dry sand plains and rocky ridges; commen on east shore of lakes where blowdowns create openings for regeneration. It is sort of fire proof so it won't catch on fire easily(don't and I mean do not ever try to catch the tree on fire I mean it).