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Apart from structural wood preservation measures, there are a number of different chemical preservatives and processes (also known as timber treatment, lumber treatment or pressure treatment) that can extend the life of wood, timber, and their associated products, including engineered wood. These generally increase the durability and resistance ...
Scots pine, red pine, Mugo pine, Ponderosa pine, and Austrian pine are especially susceptible. Some spruce, fir, and cedar species are also vulnerable to infection. [ 3 ] The disease can infect trees of all ages, though trees that are physiologically stressed through water or nutrient deficiencies or wounded via extreme weather or insect damage ...
Pinus mugo, known as dwarf mountain pine, [4] mountain pine, scrub mountain pine, Swiss mountain pine, [5] bog pine, creeping pine, [6] or mugo pine, [7] is a species of conifer, native to high elevation habitats from southwestern to Central Europe and Southeast Europe.
Pine-pine gall rust, also known as western gall rust, is a fungal disease of pine trees. It is caused by Endocronartium harknessii (asexual name is Peridermium harknessii ), an autoecious , endocyclic , rust fungus that grows in the vascular cambium of the host. [ 1 ]
Western white pine is a large tree, regularly growing to 30–50 metres (98–164 ft) tall. It is a member of the white pine group, Pinus subgenus Strobus, and like all members of that group, the leaves ('needles') are in fascicles (bundles) of five, [5] with a deciduous sheath.
A sanding schedule usually begins with sandpaper that is coarse enough to remove larger defects (typically 80 or 100 grit, but sometimes higher if the surface is already quite smooth), and progresses through a series of sandpaper grades that gradually remove the sanding scratches created by the previous sanding steps. [19]
Pine seedlings being bred to resist white pine blister rust by the US Forest Service Cronartium ribicola is a heteroecious, macrocyclic pathogen on Pinus spp and Ribes spp. [ 7 ] Because young pines are smaller and less developed than mature trees, they are most susceptible to the pathogen.
Chionaspis pinifoliae, the pine needle scale insect, is a common species of scale insect found on pine, spruce and other conifers across Canada and throughout the United States. [1] The species is particularly persistent on planted spruce in the Prairie Provinces in both rural and urban settings.