Talk:Table Mountain Pine

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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)