Which Arkansas Pine is this?

[Greg_L]

Visited my sister and parents down in Arkansas (which is not where I was raised) a few weeks back and cleaned out their trees. Absolutely fell in love with their pines, but the greater interwebs search has been pretty useless in helping me sort out which of Arkansas' major pines these ones were. My current guess is Loblolly, but that's more a guess than a hypothesis.

Anyone? Image quality isn't stellar, and I don't have any close-ups of the needles or cones, but the bark was very flaky...almost papery. Very sturdy branches for a pine.

 

[oldoakman]

I spent a millennia in Arkansas a few years back. Pines there are most loblolly with a few shortleaf thrown in. Shortleaf is very similiar to the loblolly but different number of needles in bundle. Where in AR were you?

 

[JD3000]

Yeah needle # will help

 

[evo]

Yeah

 

[evo]

Sup

 

[JustinK]

Shortleaf. Turtleshell like plated bark. If you look close, should be tiny resin blisters (tiny craters) in the bark.

 

[Greg_L]

I spent a millennia in Arkansas a few years back. Pines there are most loblolly with a few shortleaf thrown in. Shortleaf is very similiar to the loblolly but different number of needles in bundle. Where in AR were you?

Russellville/Lake Dardanelle Area. I'm back in Indiana, and they aren't there at present for a needle count.