Editing Table mountain pine (section)

=== Morphology ===
''Pinus pungens'' is a native, slow-growing conifer. It is often small in stature and exceedingly limby.<ref>Della-Bianca, Lino. 1990. Pinus pungens Lamb. Table Mountain pine. In: Burns, Russell M.; Honkala, Barbara H., technical coordinators. Silvics of North America. Volume 1. Conifers. Agric. Handb. 654. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service: 425-432.</ref>  It rarely grows beyond 66 feet (20 m) tall, though the tallest individual recorded was 95 feet (29 m).<ref name=":110">{{Cite web |title=Pinus pungens |url=https://www.fs.usda.gov/database/feis/plants/tree/pinpun/all.html#BOTANICAL%20AND%20ECOLOGICAL%20CHARACTERISTICS |access-date=2023-11-14 |website=www.fs.usda.gov}}</ref>  ''Pinus pungens'' is typically around {{convert|16|in|cm}} [[diameter at breast height]] (DBH). The maximum recorded DBH was {{convert|34|in|cm}}.<ref name=":110"/>  The trunks of ''Pinus pungens'' are often crooked and have irregularly shaped cross-sections. Older trees tend to be flat-topped, while young trees can vary in form from that of a large bush when open-grown, to slender with relatively small limbs when grown in a dense stand.<ref name=":34">{{Cite journal |last=Zobel |first=Donald B. |date=1970 |title=Morphological Characterization of Pinus pungens |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24334835 |journal=Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society |volume=86 |issue=4 |pages=214–221 |issn=0013-6220}}</ref> Table Mountain pine typically has long, thick limbs on much of the trunk even in closed canopy stands.<ref name=":34"/>

Male cones are {{convert|1.5|cm|in}} long. Female cones are sessile and range from {{convert|4.2|to|10|cm|in}} long.<ref name=":34"/>  Cone scales are tough and armed with broad, upwardly curving spines.<ref name=":110"/>