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Michigan Information

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Michigan Information

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Capital City:Lansing
Michigan official nickname:The Great Lakes State
Old standard abbreviation:Mich
new postal code abbreviation:MI

Michigan Official State Flower
Apple Blossom
Pyrus coronaria

Michigan State Tree
Eastern White Pine
‘Pinaceae Pinus strobus’

The Eastern White Pine is a large evergreen tree with a very straight stem. The crown is conical when young, but as it matures it developes wispy, horizontal branches. The ‘leaves’ grow from 3 to 5 inches long, with five blue-green, slender needles per fascicle – the needles appear blue because of 3 or more lines of stomata.
The male pines bear cylindrical, yellow flowers in clusters near the tips of the branches, the females are light green tinged in red. The Eastern White Pine is the state tree for Michigan and Maine. Michigan celebrates Arbor day the last Friday in April.

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