Seedlings of One Longleaf

The red flags mark more than 120 seedlings sprouting from this one longleaf:

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Here’s what they look like just after they come up:

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It’s a pretty big tree:

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It probably would have even more seedlings, except it’s right by the driveway:

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Most of the other big longleaf have seedlings like that all through the woods. Two wet springs, seeds last fall, seedlings this spring.

More pictures in the flickr set.

Pictures by Gretchen Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 10 March 2010.