Pinus teocote description

Range of Pinus teocote (Farjon and Styles 1997). Basemap from Expedia Maps.

Pinus teocote Schiede ex Schlechtendal et Chamisso

Common Names

Taxonomic notes

Description

Range

Mexico, Guatemala (Farjon and Styles 1997). See also Thompson et al. (1999).

Big Tree

Oldest

Dendrochronology

Ethnobotany

Observations

Remarks

This species is a principal host for the dwarf mistletoes Arceuthobium globosum subsp. grandicaule (in southern Mexico), Arceuthobium rubrum (in Durango and Sinaloa), and A. nigrum, the latter having been described from a collection on this species 51 km E of El Salto on highway 40, the Durango-Mazatlan highway (Hawksworth and Wiens 1996). See the "Remarks" in Abies durangensis for a relevant story.