Talk:Table mountain pine

So it has nothing to do with Table Mountain which does have extensive (introduced) pines on its flanks? Is there a Table Mountain in the Appalachian Mountains that its named after?


 * No, it doesn't; the pines on South Africa's Table Mountain are introduced Monterey Pine, Aleppo Pine, Stone Pine, and Maritime Pine (Richardson & Higgins 1998, Pines as invaders in the southern hemisphere, pp. 450-473 in Richardson (ed.) Ecology and Biogeography of Pinus, Cambridge U.P.).
 * In the case of Pinus pungens, "table mountain" is a general landform term for any flat-topped mountain, not a particular named mountain. - MPF 10:43, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure that this is correct. USDA Plants has it as "Table Mountain pine", which capitalization suggests it is named after a particular Table Mountain (not necessarily the one in South Africa)Plantdrew (talk) 00:32, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

Edit to improve sort order in Category Pinus
I edited this to change the sort order on the page for the Category:Pinus. It had been set to alphabetize under Pine. That might make sense for categories where there are a lot of trees and a few of them are pines; then all the pines group together. But on the page where everything is a pine, it made more sense to alphabetize under Table Mountain. 71.126.140.136 (talk) 11:25, 14 April 2010 (UTC)Stephen Kosciesza

Page title
In line with Naming_conventions_(flora) I'd like to move this page to Pinus pungens. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 15:20, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
 * This seems like a good candidate. Pinus pungens comes out narrowly ahead in a general Google test, so it looks like there's a good case under WP:COMMONNAME for a move (to say nothing of WP:PLANTS). Plantdrew (talk) 00:32, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

Minor Edit
I added information regarding the ecology of P. pungens with information from a scientific journal about the characteristics, history, and future succession of P. pungens. Katelyncothren (talk) 18:22, 4 October 2023 (UTC)

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