St. Peter Catholic School in DeLand received Wednesday a loblolly pine sapling from a seed that flew around the moon during NASA’s Artemis I mission in 2022.

A freshly planted longleaf pine seedling is part of an effort to slowly transition an existing stand of loblolly to longleaf on property owned by Nemours Wildlife Foundation in Yemassee, Jan. 7, 2025.

Inside the burn, loblolly pine saplings keeled over, their leaves shriveling. But the baby longleafs endured, streaks of green amid the blackened dirt.

On Wednesday, the school celebrated the planting of a rare second-generation Moon Tree, which was grown from a loblolly pine. The seedling was picked from a group of tree species that launched ...

The NC Forest Service begins their annual native forest tree seedling sale on July 1. 40 or more species are available.

Pine needle blight is a growing ... seedling stages of Longleaf Pine,” Riggins said. “And now the reason it’s becoming a new issue as an emerging threat is because we’re seeing it impact ...

Back when it was a seed, the loblolly pine traveled thousands of miles around the moon. And this was just one seed among about 2,000 - sycamores, sweet gums, Douglas firs, giant sequoias and, of ...

A Loblolly Pine "Artemis 1 Moon Tree" sapling is seen at the North Carolina Governor's Mansion, where it is to be planted. (Image credit: NASA) ...

Members of Claymont High School's science club planted a sycamore sapling that, ... and citizen science to educators and youth nationwide. Seeds that orbited the Moon are from loblolly pine ...

“These pathogens are native but, historically, have not caused problems in stands of mature loblolly pine,” Riggins said. “In the past, this was only a problem in young longleaf seedlings and in ...

The special tree, a loblolly pine, was part of a NASA program that centered on seedlings grown from seeds that had been to the Moon and back. In 2022, the seeds journeyed 270,000 miles aboard ...

A loblolly pine sapling is one of two at David Braun Park in Nassau Bay that are descended from trees grown from seeds that circled the moon during the Apollo 14 lunar mission in 1971.