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Pinus virginiana

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Noun1.Pinus virginiana - common small shrubby pine of the eastern United States having straggling often twisted or branches and short needles in bunches of 2Pinus virginiana - common small shrubby pine of the eastern United States having straggling often twisted or branches and short needles in bunches of 2
pine, pine tree, true pine - a coniferous tree


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Virginia Pine is a member of the Pine family Pinaceae and is known scientifically as Pinus virginiana It was once thought of as a forest weed but it has now become quite commercially important Virginia Pine is a member of the Pine family Pinaceae and is known scientifically as Pinus virginiana.
This epithet may refer to the plant's original habitat: for instance, Pinus virginiana for the pitch pine native to eastern North America; to the plant collector who discovered it in the wild, perhaps fortunei if, as in the case of the rhododendron, it was first brought into cultivation by Robert Fortune (1812-1880); or to some other distinguishing characteristic such as white-flowered, in which case it might be called albiflorens.
 
 
 
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