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Slash Pine - Photo (c) Mary Keim, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA) CC
Slash Pine (Pinus elliottii) Info
Pinus elliottii, commonly known as the slash pine, is a pine tree native to the southeastern United States. Slash pine is named after the "slashes" – swampy ground overgrown with trees and bushes – that constitute its habitat. (Wikipedia)
Caribbean Pine - Photo (c) Mike Plagens, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Mike Plagens CC
Caribbean Pine (Pinus caribaea) Info
The Caribbean pine, Pinus caribaea, is a hard pine, native to Central America, Cuba, the Bahamas, and the Turks and Caicos Islands. It belongs to subsection Australes in subgenus Pinus. It inhabits tropical and subtropical coniferous forests, which include both lowland savannas and montane forests. Wildfire plays a major role limiting the range of this species, but it has been reported that this tree regenerates quickly and aggressively, replacing latifoliate tr (Wikipedia)