Trees in cultivation in Caribbean mountains (Carrington, no date).

Foliage on a tree at Quail Botanical Garden, CA [C.J. Earle, 6-Apr-2004].

Cone about 8 cm long on a tree at Quail Botanical Garden, CA [C.J. Earle, 6-Apr-2004].

Bark of a 30 cm diameter tree at Quail Botanical Garden, CA [C.J. Earle, 6-Apr-2004].

Range of Pinus caribaea (Farjon and Styles 1997). Var. caribaea in red, var. bahamensis in purple, and var. hondurensis in blue. Basemap from Expedia Maps.

Pinus caribaea

Morelet 1851

Common Names

Taxonomic notes

Three varieties (Farjon and Styles 1997):

Pinus caribaea var. caribaea (syn. P. recurvata Rowlee 1903; P. cubensis Grisebach var. anomala Rowlee 1903);
Pinus caribaea var. bahamensis (Griseb.) W.H. Barrett et Golfari 1851 (syn. P. bahamensis Grisebach 1864);
Pinus caribaea var. hondurensis (Sénécl.) W.H. Barrett et Golfari 1962 (syn. Pinus hondurensis Sénéclauze 1868; Pinus hondurensis Loock 1950 non Sénéclauze).

Description

Range

Caribbean: Bahamas and Turks-Caicos Islands (var. bahamensis); W Cuba: Pinar del Rio and Isla de la Juventud (var. caribaea); Mexico: S Quintana Roo; N Guatemala; Belize; Honduras incl. Islas de la Bahía; Nicaragua (var. hondurensis) (Farjon and Styles 1997). Var. caribaea has conservation status "vulnerable" (IUCN Red List 2006.11.18), and var. hondurensis is listed as threatened by the Mexican government (NOM-ECOL-059-94). See also Thompson et al. (1999).

Big Tree

Oldest

Dendrochronology

Ethnobotany

Observations

Remarks

In Belize, P. caribaea var. hondurensis is a host to the dwarf mistletoe Arceuthobium hawksworthii (Hawksworth and Wiens 1996).

Citations

Carrington, Sean. [no date]. The Conifers. http://scitec.uwichill.edu.bb/bcs/bl14apl/gym3.htm (accessed 8-Dec-2004).