Re: Monterey Pine
- To: m*@ucdavis.edu
- Subject: Re: Monterey Pine
- From: C* D* <c*@fix.net>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 19:58:27 -0800
From John Heverley, heverlyj@ccnet.com
>>>Please allow me to weigh in with an explanation for the confusing
>>>behavior
>>>of Pinus radiata:
>>>
>>>The answer(s) lie in the edaphics, i.e. the soil. Monterey Pine is
>>>native
>>>to a sandy littoral in California as we all know. There it is hardly
>>>more
>>>than a large shrub for much of its life, slow growing, deep green. Just
>>>the kind of tree that would attract an adventurous landscape designer.
>>>...............
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I'm confused. What is called Monterey Pine here in San Luis Obispo
is no shrub. I planted one in my front yard when I moved in. Twenty five
years later it was a 40-50 foot tree. It greww about 2 feet a year. It is a
large pine and gets that way pretty quickly! It got the bark beetle and I
had to have it removed. It was at least 30 inches in diameter just above
ground level!
I don't understand. Why this difference? ---Chas---
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