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Pinus patula
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Family:
PINACEAE
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Citation: Pinus patula Schl. & Cham., Linnaea 12: 488. 1838.
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Malayalam Name(s):
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Mexican Weeping Pine
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Description:
Tree to 25 m; bark reddish-brown, irregularly fissured; winter buds oblongish, to 2 cm; scales lanceolate, to 1 cm, acuminate, margins fringed. Leaves in 3s, to 20 cm, margins serrulate, apex acute; basal sheath to 1.5 cm, persistent. Staminate cones oblong, to 1 x 0.5 cm, clustered. Microsporophylls obovoid-oblong, to 0.1 cm, hood rounded, to 0.05 cm. Pistillate cones 2-8-clustered, broadly ellipsoid, later ovoid-ellipsoid, to 12 x 4 cm, pale brown, reflexed, oblique at base, stalk scaly. Ovuliferous scales broadly obovate becoming obovate-oblong, to 2.5 x 1 cm; exposed part rhomboidal, concave with 2 shallow furrows at right angles to each other, apex mucronate; bract-scale obcordate, 0.1 x 0.18 cm. Seeds 0.4x 0.2 cm; wings to 1 x 0.5 cm.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
Throughout the year
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District(s):
Idukki
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Grown as ornamental tree in the High Ranges
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Distribution:
Central and East Mexico
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
,g,
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Exotic:
Yes
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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