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Pinus patula Schlechtendal & Chamisso

This article should be read together with the article on the genus: Pinus in the Handbook volume indicated above in this database.

Linnaea 6: 354 (1831).

Pinus subpatula Roezl ex Gordon (1862).

Spreading-leaved pine, Mexican weeping pine, Jelecote pine (En).

Mexico; planted in South-East Asia, particularly in Papua New Guinea.

The wood is used for light construction work, boxes, ceilings, joinery and flooring, and for paper production.

A medium-sized, slender tree up to 30(—40) m tall, but in plantations often much shorter, usually with a straight and cylindrical bole, sometimes forked, rough and deeply fissured bark, scaly with papery sheets curling upwards, and branches horizontal or turned upwards at their tips; needles in bundles of (2—)3—4(—5), very slender, 15—30 cm long, persistent for 2—4 years; mature cones in groups of 3—6, 4—12 cm 2.5—4 cm, often curved, shortly stalked, pale glossy grey or brown; seed 3—5 mm long with a wing of c. 10 mm long, brownish-black.

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M.S.M. Sosef

Sosef, M.S.M., 1993. Pinus patula Schlechtendal & Chamisso. In: Soerianegara, I. and Lemmens, R.H.M.J. (Editors): Plant Resources of South-East Asia No 5(1): Timber trees; Major commercial timbers. PROSEA Foundation, Bogor, Indonesia. Database record: prota4u.org/prosea