Pinus armandii

Franchet 1884

Common names

华山松 hua shan song [Chinese]; Chinese white pine.

Taxonomic notes

Syn: P. dabeshanensis, P. masteriana. One variety, mastersiana. P. amamiana was formerly described as a variety of P. armandii.

Description

"A large tree. Leaves 5 in a fascicle, slender, 8-15 cm. long, serrulate, bright green, triangular in cross section, with 1 vascular bundle and 3 resin ducts, one medial, two marginal. Mature cones ovoid, about 14 cm. long, scales rhombic, thickened, umbo terminal, unbrmed. Seed ovoid, wingless. Trunk bark blackish brown to grayish red brown, shallowly cracked or sometimes irregularly fussured, covered by thin, loosely appressed small scales (the bark on young stems grayish brown, thin and smooth); lenticels inconspicuous, outer bark about 8 mm. thick, cross section of outer bark grayish brown, with pale apricot yellow tiered streaks; phelloderm almost inconspicuous; inner bark 8-l5 mm. thick, pale reddish white, finely fibrous; cambium and newly formed phloem inconspicuous. Freshly cut sapwood pale yellowish white, wood rays inconspicuous, excreting colorless resin after cutting" (Liu 1970).

Range

Central and W China, S Japan. N & C Taiwan at altitudes of 2,300-3,000 m (Liu 1970).

Big tree

Oldest

Dendrochronology

Ethnobotany

Observations

Remarks

Citations

Franchet, A.R. 1884. Plantae davidianae ex sinarum imperio. Part I. Plantes de Mongolie du nord et du centre de la Chine. Coniferae. T. VII, pp. 285-293, pl. 12-14. Paris.

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