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Encyclopedia > Bhutan White Pine
Bhutan White Pine
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Pinophyta
Class: Pinopsida
Order: Pinales
Family: Pinaceae
Genus: Pinus
Species: bhutanica
Binomial name
Pinus bhutanica

Bhutan White Pine (Pinus bhutanica) is a tree restricted to Bhutan and adjacent parts of northeast India and southwest China. Along with the related Blue Pine (Pinus wallichiana) it is a constituent of lower altitude blue pine forests. This pine reaches a height of 25 meters.


The needles are in bundles of five, up to 25 cm long. The cones are 12-20 cm in length, with thin scales; the seeds are 5-6 mm long, with a 20-25 mm wing. It differs from Blue Pine in the much longer, strongly drooping needles, and the cones being slightly smaller and red-brown, rather than yellow-buff, when mature. It is also adapted to generally warmer, wetter climates at lower altitudes, with an intense summer monsoon. Despite the two being closely related and at least occasionally growing together, no hybrids or intermediates have ever been reported.


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Article about "Pine" in the English Wikipedia on 24-Apr-2004 (1044 words)
Pines are coniferous trees of the genus Pinus, in the family Pinaceae.
Pines are monoecious, having male and female cones on the same tree.
Pines are commercially among the most important of species used for timber in temperate and tropical regions of the world.
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