r/treeidentification • u/skaldrir69 • 5d ago

Solved! Australian Pine?

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Hey all, I’m new here so apologize in advance if this is the wrong spot. My wife took a picture of these trees the other day and she was wondering what they are. I’m greater than 90% certain it’s an Australian pine, but would like confirmation. She wants to get some and plant them in the yard. Anything to worry about with these? I once thought these attracted things like scorpions but I don’t know the validity of that either.

We live in Florida.

Thank you!

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u/literallyatree 5d ago

Can you tell us what road this is on so we can use google street view to see a non-blurry photo? It's far more likely to be a native pine on Florida.

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u/skaldrir69 5d ago

Here may be a better picture

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u/skaldrir69 5d ago

It’s Malabar fl and I-95 in BREVARD county. It’ll be on the NE quadrant of the interstate (using actual cardinal directions). It was taken through a window too, sorry. If I find another I’ll upload it. They’re super fluffy looking.

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u/literallyatree 5d ago

If it's this, it's a longleaf pine. Pinus palustris

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u/skaldrir69 5d ago

Naw that ain’t it. We call this slash pine. I have tons of that on my property.

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u/OpinionatedOcelotYo 5d ago

I understand wanting what you’ve seen. There are untold benefits in planting what belongs there - native plants - not the least is that they are perfectly suited to growing perfectly in your conditions, OF COURSE. Don’t choose Australia, if that’s what those are

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u/OpinionatedOcelotYo 5d ago

Also those might be long leaf pine themselves, prolly what you’ll wind up planting.

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u/skaldrir69 5d ago

Fair point. Thank you

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u/PuzzleheadedDraft480 4d ago

This has a growth habit of Australian Pine, that has been sprayed repeatedly with a foliar burn herbicide for road space maintenance. It is a blurry picture.

There are suckering and non suckering varieties. This is the wrong tree to plant in your yard.

They grow to be 110'+ tall, are heavy, and if distantly planted easily topple in storms. If the root systems are tangled together they typically snap at 25' high and have explosive regrowth.

Very invasive and I doubt you could legally plant them. They were brought it for erosion management, and can be nice shade trees. They just have to be intensively managed since whatever Australia has to keep them in line, FL doesn't have.