Pinus pseudostrobus
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Pinus pseudostrobus, known in English as the smooth-bark Mexican pine and in Spanish as chamite or pacingo, is a tree found in forests of Mexico and Central America.[1][2][3] Script error: No such module "Unsubst". It is 8 to 25 m tall with a dense and round top.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".It is threatened by logging and wood harvesting.[1] The bark is brown and fissured and smooth when young. Script error: No such module "Unsubst". It is subject to ex situ conservation.[1] It grows at altitudes between 850 and 3250 m. from 26° to 15° north latitude, from Sinaloa, Mexico to Nicaragua and Honduras. It occurs within a rainfall regime that rains mostly in summer.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
In some forested areas like southern Nuevo León Pinus pseudostrobus is the tree with largest volume per hectare.[4]
English botanist John Lindley described the species in 1839. It is divided into Pinus pseudostrobus var.apulcensis (Lindl.)Shaw (Apulco pine), Pinus pseudostrobus f.protuberans Martínez and Pinus pseudostrobus var.pseudostrobus.[2][3]
It has been introduced in New Zealand near sea level and has done well.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
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Male cones at San Francisco Botanical Garden
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Pinus pseudostrobus, Cerro Pelón, Mexico
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- Trees of Northern America
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- Flora of the Sierra Madre Occidental
- Flora of the Sierra Madre Oriental
- Flora of Central Mexico
- Flora of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt
- Flora of the Chiapas Highlands