Pinus pseudostrobus

Pinus pseudostrobus, known in English as the smooth-bark Mexican pine and in Spanish as chamite or pacingo, is a tree endemic to Mexico.

Pinus pseudostrobus
var. apulcensis in cultivation
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Pinophyta
Class: Pinopsida
Order: Pinales
Family: Pinaceae
Genus: Pinus
Subgenus: P. subg. Pinus
Section: P. sect. Trifoliae
Subsection: P. subsect. Ponderosae
Species:
P. pseudostrobus
Binomial name
Pinus pseudostrobus
Lindl.
Natural range of Pinus pseudostrobus

It is 8 to 25 m tall, dense and round top, the bark is brown and fissured and smooth when young. It grows between 1300–3250 m. From 26° to 15° north latitude, from Sinaloa, Mexico to El Salvador and Honduras. It occurs within a rainfalls regime mostly in summer. A stand of about 15 fully mature Mexican pines is in Imperial County, California, at the Palo Verde County Park, in a narrow strip of land between Hwy 78 and the Colorado River.

It has been introduced in New Zealand near sea level and has done well.

References

  1. Farjon, A. (2013). "Pinus pseudostrobus". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2013: e.T42404A2977667. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T42404A2977667.en. Retrieved 15 December 2017.


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