Red Pine is a slow grower especially when it is just growing from a seed.
The Red Pine Tree can take as long as 10 years to reach 4 feet tall and then after it gets growing it begins to grow at a faster rate.
Once the red pine tree grows from a seed into a tree then the growth can be as much as 1 foot per year.
Red Pine is also a shade intolerant, long-lived species and is one of the most genetically uniform forest trees.
The main difference between red and white pine is the amount of needles the pines have per bundle.
The red pines have two needles per bundle and the white pine has 5 needles per bundle.
The Jack Pine also has two needles per bundle like the white pines do.
Red Pine Trees are also known as Pinus resinosa.
Red Pine Trees are a pine tree that is native to North America.
The Red Pines grow in locations from Newfoundland west to Manitoba, and south to Pennsylvania, with several smaller, disjunct populations
White Pines are also known as Pinus strobus and they commonly denominated the eastern white pine, northern white pine, white pine, Weymouth pine, and soft pine is a large pine native to eastern North America.