Vidal’s New Native-Pine Planting.
Channel: EarthSangha
Date: 2020-02-25

Here’s another new planting, but of a very different type. Those little tufts of green needles here and there in the grass are seedlings of Hispaniolan pine. (See my note on the first picture.) This species is usually just called “pino criollo,” which translates, unsurprisingly, as “native pine.” Pino criollo dominates much of Hispaniola’s central highlands. It also occurs on moist soils at low elevations, but it really comes into its own farther upslope and on mountain ridges.