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I’ve lived where loblolly, lodgepole, ponderosa, and white pine have grown. Those are all toxic.

I could;ve sworn I saw online sellers offering their homegrown white pine needles for making tea. Thank goodness I didn’t bite - the prices were exorbitant for something as common as pine needles. And toxic, too? Sheesh.

Guess I won’t go that route. Plenty of trees around here that I have no idea how to identify. They are just evergreens to me (haha, see what I did there?) But seriously. I wouldn’t know a pine from a spruce from a cedar, never mind distinguishing between pine species, even if I knew which ones were good. Thank goodness I don’t have to spend time in close quarters with jabbed people!