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 Pinus roxburghii

Common Names

Chir (1) or Imodi pine.

Taxonomic notes

Description

Range

Himal (1).

Big Tree

Oldest

Dendrochronology

Ethnobotany

Observations

Remarks

The species comes closer than any other other pine to being deciduous, having a needle retention time of one year, the shortest of any pine (2).

Citations

(1) Silba 1986.
(2) Richardson & Rundel 1998.

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This page is from the Gymnosperm Database
URL: http://www.geocities.com/~earlecj/pi/pin/rox.htm
Edited by Christopher J. Earle
E-mail:earlecj@earthlink.com
Last modified on 7-Apr-1999

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