兴凯赤松 xing kai chi song

Pinus densiflora f. ussuriensis (Liou & Q. L. Wang) Kitagawa; P. takahasii Nakai.

Trees to 20 m tall; bark red-brown or yellow-brown. First-year branchlets white powdery. Needles twisted, 5-12 cm, resin canals 8, margin usually not inflexed. Seed cones pendulous. Apophyses ± pyramidal, obviously ridged, apex recurved in apophyses toward base of cones. Seeds pale brown with black spots, slightly appressed, obovoid, 3-5 mm; wing 1-1.2 cm. Pollination May-Jun, seed maturity Sep-Oct of 2nd year.

Lakesides, rocky hillsides. S Heilongjiang [E Russia]