Cypress Shakes And Shingles
TAMRAC
We have just acquired a large shipment
of rediscovered Tamrac, actual age not determined. Suffice it to say this
Tamrac is a
least 70 years old. It has come to us in beam and lumber form. We will mill
it to your specs or as is .
At present Tamrac is selling for $2.00 per B.F. Always check our message board
for specials.
Pinus contorta subsp. latifolia (Engelmann) Critchfield 1957
Common Names
Lodgepole or doghair pine (Elmore and Janish 1976); black, spruce, prickly, jack or tamrac pine (Peattie 1950).
Taxonomic notes
Syn: Pinus contorta var. latifolia Engelmann 1871; P. tenuis Lemmon (Critchfield 1957). There is genetic evidence that subsp. latifolia is separable into two populations, a southern one in the Rocky Mtns. south of the Pleistocene ice, and a northern one that survived in ice-free areas north of the main ice front in Canada (Wheeler and Guries 1982, Wheeler and Critchfield 1985); these could possibly be distinct at varietal rank but no name has been given to the northern population.
Description
Trees to 41 m tall and 80 cm dbh, mostly straight and evenly tapering, or near timberline reduced to shrub form by windblown ice; crown usually conic at maturity. Bark gray- to red-brown, not evidently furrowed, separating into loose plates. Branches mostly horizontally spreading, not ascending at tip. Leaves (4-)5-8 cm × 1.4-2.5(-3) mm [1-2(-3) mm in dry herbarium material], yellow-green, apex narrowly acute to short-acuminate. Seed cones maturing in 16-18 months, then shedding seeds or variously serotinous, long-persistent, strongly asymmetric, mostly recurved, seldom whorled, mostly in twos or solitary, (2-)2.5-5(-5.5) cm long, orange-brown, mid and lower apophyses mostly much domed (Critchfield 1957, Kral 1993).
Big Tree
Height 41 m, dbh 111 cm, crown spread 12 m, located in Valley County, ID
(American
Forests 1996).
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662-226-2238