Table Mountain Pine. Its range extends from the northern appalachians in central pennsylvania southwest to eastern west virginia and southward into the southern appalachians ending on the steep western edge of the mountains of north carolina and east tennessee 1 2 6 9 10 11 19 25 29. Table mountain pine is a highly ornamental native pine trees become twisted and gnarled with age especially in exposed locations almost looking like natural bonsai.
The seeds are also eaten by the shieldbacked pine seed bug tetyra bipunctata. Table mountain pine is only found within or near the appalachian mountains stretching in range from northern georgia to central pennsylvania. Table mountain pine pinus pungens also called hickory pine prickly pine or mountain pine is a small pine native to the appalachian mountains in the united states.
The needles are in bundles of two occasionally three yellow green to mid.
Trunk to 0 6 m diam straight to crooked erect to leaning poorly self pruning. The trees are resistant to deer and rabbit damage due to the long sharp needles. Bark red to gray brown irregularly checked into scaly plates. Table mountain pine is endemic to the appalachian mountains and while adapted to soil textures of all types it prefers rocky shallow well draining soils with a ph between 4 5 and 7 0 at high elevations.