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Needles are fascicled, in groups of 2, about 3 inches long, blue-green, slender, evergreen and fragrant when crushed.  Twigs are gray and smooth.  Bark is gray-brown and smooth on young trees and grooved and "spruce-like" on older trees.  Cones are about 3 inches long and gray-brown with deciduous prickles.  Spruce pine is found on wet sites in the southeastern U.S. and is very shade tolerant.  The brittle wood is used for pulpwood.

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