红松 Pinus koraiensis

  • Scientific Name: Pinus koraiensis Siebold & Zucc.
  • Ref: Fl. Jap. 2(3):28. 1842
  • Synonyms: Apinus koraiensis (Siebold & Zucc.) Moldenke, Pinus mandschurica Rupr., Pinus prokoraiensis Y.T.Zhao, J.M.Lu & A.G.Gu, Strobus koraiensis (Siebold & Zucc.) Moldenke
  • English Common Name: Korean pine, Chinese pinenut
  • Chinese Common Name: 红松 hóngsōng, 海松 hǎisōng, 果松 guǒsōng, 红果松 hóng∙guǒsōng
  • Japanese Common Name: チョウセンゴヨウ [朝鮮五葉] chōsengoyō, チョウセンマツ [朝鮮松] chōsenmatsu
  • Family: Pinaceae
  • Genus: Pinus
  • Distribution: Mountains; 200-1800 m. Heilongjiang, Jilin [Japan, Korea, E Russia]
  • Photo: 07/22/2010, Mt. Changbai, Jilin
Trees to 50 m tall; trunk to 1 m d.b.h.; bark gray-brown or gray, fissured longitudinally into irregularly oblong plates, inner bark red-brown; branchlets densely red-brown, occasionally yellow pubescent; winter buds reddish brown, oblong-ovoid, slightly resinous. Needles 5 per bundle, dark green, straight, almost triangular in cross section, 6-12 cm, stomatal lines 6-8 along each abaxial surface, blue-gray, vascular bundle 1, resin canals 3, median, base with sheath shed, margin serrulate. Seed cones solitary or several clustered near apex of 1st-year branchlets, erect, pedunculate (peduncle 1-1.5 cm), conical-ovoid or ovoid-oblong, 9-14 × 6-8 cm, indehiscent or slightly dehiscent at maturity, with seeds exposed but not shed. Seed scales reflexed at apex. Seeds triangular-obovoid, 1.2-1.6 cm, wingless. (Flora of China)

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