 See (3, 4) for illustrations. | Tsuga dumosa (D. Don) EichlerCommon NamesHimalayan hemlock; Yunnan tieshan (4).Taxonomic notesSyn: Pinus dumosa D. Don; Tsuga brunoniana (Wallich) Carrière; T. yunnanensis (Franch.) Pritzel; T. dumosa var. chinensis (Franch.) Pritzel, quoad plant. Yunnan.; T. leptophylla Hand.-Mzt.; T. intermedia Hand.-Mzt.; T. dura Downie; T. wardii Downie; T. calcarea Downie; T. mairei Lemée et Léveillé (4).DescriptionSee (4).RangeHimalaya: India from Uttar Pradesh to the Assam Himal (Arunachal Pradesh); N Burma; SE Tibet; China: NW Yunnan and into SW Sichuan (4).Big TreeA photograph of a specimen 320 cm dbh growing in Yunnan near Tibet appears in (3).OldestDendrochronologyI can find (Feb-1999) only one exploratory study (5).EthnobotanyObservationsRemarksCitations(1) Silba 1986.(2) Cheng & Fu 1987. (3) Parkenham, T. 1997. Meetings with remarkable trees. Random House. Page 9. (4) Farjon 1990. (5) Amalava Bhattacharyya, Valmore C. LaMarche Jr., and Malcolm K. Hughes. 1992 Tree-ring chronologies from Nepal. Tree-Ring Bulletin 52: 59-66. |
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