Eastern White Pine <i><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pinus_strobus" title="Pinus strobus">Pinus strobus</a></i> giant (possibly old-growth), Appalachian Park, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. This tree, easily more than 30 m tall, grew from a jumbled pile of talus. Along one side of its trunk was a long, fissured, blackened fire scar, possibly from a lightning strike. Near its base, growing in the thin soil just outside the talus, were several <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pinus_strobus_seedling_Appalachian_Park.jpg" title="File:Pinus strobus seedling Appalachian Park.jpg">seedlings</a>.
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/people/14922165@N00">Nicholas A. Tonelli</a> from Pennsylvania, USA
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