Pinus sibirica

Du Tour 1803

Common names

Siberian cedar; kedr (Russian) (Vladimir Dinets e-mail 1998.01.10).

Taxonomic notes

Syn: Pinus cembra L. var. sibirica (Du Tour) G. Don 1830; P. cembra subsp. sibirica (Du Tour) Krylov 1914; P. coronans Litv. 1913; P. hingganensis H.J. Zhang 1985; P. sibirica var. hingganensis (H.J. Zhang) Silba 1990 (Farjon 1998).

Description

Range

Russia (the Urals and Siberia, excepting most of Yakutia and E coastal areas), China (Heilongjiang, Nei Mongol, Xinjiang), Kazakhstan, N Mongolia (Vladimir Dinets e-mail 1998.01.10, Farjon 1998). "Grows on wet W slopes and on wet soils, in pure stands or in association with Picea obovata and Abies sibirica ("black taiga") (Vladimir Dinets e-mail 1998.01.10).

Big tree

A specimen 48 m tall and 350 cm in girth occurs on Kedrovy Pass in the Altai Mts. (Vladimir Dinets e-mail 1998.01.10).

Oldest

Tree TPX-16 collected at Tarvagatay Pass, Mongolia by Gordon Jacoby, Nachin, and D. Frank had a crossdated age of 629 years (RMTRR 2006).

Dendrochronology

Ethnobotany

Seeds locally harvested (Vladimir Dinets e-mail 1998.01.10).

Observations

Remarks

This is another pine, like the piñon and P. albicaulis, that provides an important food source for local indigenous peoples and wildlife in the form of large, wingless seeds that are distributed primarily by birds - in this case, the Siberian nutcracker (Nucifraga nucifraga) (Vladimir Dinets e-mail 1998.01.10).

Citations

See also

Farjon (1984).

Richardson (1998).

Wu and Raven (1999).