Pseudolarix

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Credits

Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Pseudolarix' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/pseudolarix/). Accessed 2025-03-25.

Family

Pinaceae

Species in genus

Pseudolarix amabilis

Glossary

cone: Term used here primarily to indicate the seed-bearing (female) structure of a conifer (‘conifer’ = ‘cone-producer’); otherwise known as a strobilus. A number of flowering plants produce cone-like seed-bearing structures including Betulaceae and Casuarinaceae.

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Credits

Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Pseudolarix' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/pseudolarix/). Accessed 2025-03-25.

A young Pseudolarix amabilis in autumn colour at Singleton Park, Swansea, UK; 10th October 2013. Image Owen Johnson.

The species described here, which is probably the only one of its genus, bears a marked resemblance to the larches in foliage and branching, but is remarkably distinct in its clustered male catkins (solitary in Larix), and in the large woody scales of the cone, which falls to pieces when ripe (remaining intact in Larix).

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