White pine in the USA

[pgrbff]

Can anyone tell me what species or group of species that cover the term white pine in the US?
The person that mentioned it was in New England I think.

 

[Jameshow]

Hemlock?

 

[pgrbff]

It didn't look like hemlock. I ca buy hemlock here in Italy, I bought it once, I didn't find it very nice to work with.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Romeyn Beck Hough gives it as Pinus flexilis. Limber pine, eastern states of the U.S. it grows better in Europe apparently.

 

[thetyreman]

https://www.wood-database.com/eastern-white-pine/

 

[pgrbff]

https://www.wood-database.com/eastern-white-pine/

Thanks that looks about right.

 

[Adam W.]

We call it Quebec yellow pine and use it for carving, but don't confuse it with Southern yellow pine which is an entirely different beast.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

"The Woodbook" (American woods) - the one to which I referred doesn't list a Quebec yellow pine in the fifty or sixty pines it does list (or at least it doesn't in the index). From a few others I've looked at I suspect the terminology is different here to that in the States.

 

[Adam W.]

Possibly. Lathams and the other dealers list it a such.

https://www.lathamtimber.co.uk/products/softwoods/north-american-canadian/quebec-yellow-pine

 

[Sgian Dubh]

"The Woodbook" (American woods) - the one to which I referred doesn't list a Quebec yellow pine in the fifty or sixty pines it does list (or at least it doesn't in the index). From a few others I've looked at I suspect the terminology is different here to that in the States.

Phil, does that book provide Latin names for the species? If so, look for Pinus strobus. After you've found that it will likely list one or more of the common names such as white pine, spruce pine, eastern white pine, northern pine, soft pine, and so on. Slainte.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

For Pinus strobus it gives Eastern white pine and Weymouth pine. For white pine it gives Pinus flexilis and limber pine.

 

[Adam W.]

You need a better book old bean.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

https://www.google.com/search?q=rom...=chrome..69i57j33i10i160l4.12640j0j7&sourceid
Take a look old bean.

 

[Adam W.]

Fancy, but obviously incomplete.

That possibly needs a :Winky:

 

[johnnyb]

eastern white pine and quebec yellow are confusingly the same. very common American wood. we usually get a shonky grade in the uk with huge knots(like bl#@€y oranges)