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North Carolina Information

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Capital City:Raleigh
North Carolina official nickname:The Tar Heel State
Old standard abbreviation:N.C.
new postal code abbreviation:NC

North Carolina Official State Flower
American Dogwood
Cornus florida

North Carolina State Tree
Longleaf pine
‘Pinaceae Pinus palustris’

The beautiful Longleaf Pine features a feathery evergreen leaf, grows from 8 to 18 inches long,
and has three dark green needles per fascicle.
In addition to having the longest needles, the Longleaf Pine is noted for also having the largest pine cones of any Pine tree in the Eastern United States. A single pine cone averages from 6 – 10 inches long.
The Longleaf pine is a medium-sized tree with a straight trunk and very coarse branches with tufted needles at the ends. This Beautiful Pine grows best on well-drained sandy soils. Longleaf pine trees once covered 30 to 60 million acres of the southeastern United States. Sadly, due to 200 years of logging and forest clearing its numbers are greatly reduced. The Longleaf pine takes 100 to 150 years to become fully mature and can live to be 300 years old ! The Longleaf Pine is the state tree for North Carolina and Alabama. North Carolina celebrates Arbor day the first Friday that follows March 15th.