How many varieties of pine trees in China (common pine varieties introduced)

Pine is the common name for pine plants, in fact, in plant taxonomy, pine belongs to the pine family Pinaceae pine subfamily Pinus, the genus has more than 80 species worldwide, China has 22 species 10 varieties, is the main species of China's composition of coniferous forests; Pine species is a high-quality materials for construction, bridges, boats, farm equipment, utensils, etc.; turpentine, bark, needles, roots, etc., can be comprehensively utilized, made of a variety of chemical products; most of the Species or afforestation, gardening and landscaping of the excellent tree species.

Pine

Pine, up to 30 meters high, up to 1 meter diameter. The bark of the tree is gray-brown, cracked into irregular scale-like stacked blocks, flowering in May every year. Oil pine for China's endemic species, produced in Jilin, Liaoning, Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai and Sichuan and other provinces (autonomous regions). Oil pine is a typical northern pine species, can be in -25 ℃ temperature under normal growth, so it can become the northern pine bonsai and garden landscape tree preferred material. At present, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River are also introduced into the material to make bonsai and garden landscape trees.

Red pine

Red pine trees up to 30 meters high, flowering in June each year, in September to October results. Red pine is light-loving, high requirements for soil moisture, not suitable for too dry, too wet soil and cold climate. Red pine beautiful shape, suitable for shade trees, street trees, landscape forests, road landscaping, landscape garden landscaping. In daily life there are a lot of supplies can be used to red pine, such as the production of pillows, furniture, excellent timber, and red pine also has a high medicinal value.

Alpine Pine

Alpine Pine and Pine, are endemic plants in China, flowering in May each year, the next October results, has a high ornamental value, it is generally grown in the river valley, mountain slopes, forests, valleys, etc., can be quickly adapted to the growing environment, but also can be used for pot plants.

Camphor Pine

Camphor Pine up to 30 meters, straight trunk, 5 to 6 flowering every year, the next year, September to October results, produced in China's Heilongjiang Daxing'anling elevation of 400-900 meters of mountainous terrain and Hailar west and south of the area around the sand dunes. Zhangzi pine adaptability, fast growth rate, and has a cold, drought, barren and wind resistance and other characteristics, can be used as the three northern regions of the protection of forests and sand afforestation of the main species, at the same time can be used as ornamental species of gardens.

Cedar

Cedar, also known as incense cedar, will emit a charming aroma, the annual flowering in October to November, has a high ornamental value. Cedar is one of the world's famous garden ornamental tree species, tall, beautiful tree, the most suitable for solitary planting in the middle of the lawn, the center of the building forecourt, the center of the plaza or the sides of the main building and the entrance to the garden. The lower branches of the trunk from near the ground to spread, not withered for many years, can form a lush and majestic crown, in addition, planted on both sides of the garden path, forming a channel, is also very spectacular.

Five-needle pine

Five-needle pine is named for the five-leafed clumps, up to 30 meters high, the maximum diameter at breast height of 1.5 meters. Young tree bark light gray, smooth, to 30 years of age the trunk epidermis began to fall off, year by year until the branches, and then the bark cracked into gray-brown scale-like pieces, very beautiful. Crown conical, new branches green to yellow-brown when young.

Five-needle pine originated in Japan, because of its short cluster of needles, the Japanese horticultural community often to seed propagation, from which the selection of excellent varieties, widely used in bonsai production and garden landscape tree modeling. Five-needle pine is common in our country for the two excellent varieties, successively introduced in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, respectively known as five-needle pine and Osaka pine.

Five-needle pine in the late Qing Dynasty by the Zhejiang Ningbo area was the first to introduce, due to the five-needle pine this variant of the needle stomatal line is particularly well developed, bright green needles of the leaf belly silver-gray is particularly obvious, so it is known as the "silver five-leaf".

Osaka pine is also an excellent variant of the five-needle pine, the new shoots are particularly dense, the needles are thicker than the unusual five-needle pine and curved inward, particularly dense, the tips of the leaves in winter are golden yellow, so it is called "golden five-leaf".

Money Pine

The Money Pine is a famous ancient remnant plant, one of the most valuable ornamental trees, and is known as one of the world's top five park trees, along with the Nanyang Sequoia, Cedar, Golden Pine and Giant Sequoia. Money pine branches and leaves in the fall will become golden yellow, has a high ornamental value, can be planted in a solitary planting, clump planting, column planting or used as a landscape forest. At the same time, the pine is a very good wood, the seeds can also be extracted oil.

White Pine

White Pine is one of China's endemic species, flowering in April to May each year, 10 to 11 results, because its bark is white or brown and white, so it seems to be very special, has a high ornamental value, the use of a very wide range of plants can be planted, planting, but also clusters of forests or as avenue trees, suitable for the courtyard in front of the hall. Suitable for the courtyard in front of the hall, pavilion side planting, so that the pines and peaks are interesting, quite spectacular.

Cuban Pine

Cuban Pine can also be called the Caribbean Pine, the growing environment is particularly demanding, like to grow in the tropics, but the Cuban Pine bark is gray or light reddish-brown, so there is a very high ornamental value, loved by the flower friends, usually can be potted in the Cuban Pine, used for decorative environment.

Huashan Pine

Huashan Pine is native to China, now distributed in various regions of the world, because the Huashan Pine has a high ornamental value, and its vitality is very strong, very easy to plant, and Huashan Pine is a very good timber can be used for the production of buildings, furniture, etc., can be used as a garden in the garden, garden trees, shade trees, In the garden can be used as landscape trees, shade trees, street trees and forest trees, can also be used for bush planting, group planting, and the Department of alpine scenery of the excellent landscape forest species.

Black Pine

Black Pine can be up to 30 meters high, diameter at breast height of up to 2 meters, branch spreading, wide cone-shaped crown or umbrella-shaped. Young tree bark dark gray, old is gray-black, molt thick and dense, easy to crack into irregular pieces of the age accumulation, forming thick patches.

Black pine is native to Japan and North Korea's southern coastal areas, our country about six or seven decades ago, introduced in the coastal areas north of zhejiang fly sowing afforestation to shandong, anhui and north of shanghai area produces the most. Black pine can withstand the cold of the north, but also to adapt to the southern hot and humid environment climate, modeling production plasticity, widely used in the production of bonsai and garden landscape tree cultivation, by inhibiting the growth of the coiled modeling, the posture of the majestic, high-pitched magnificent.

Horsetail Pine

Horsetail Pine up to 45 meters high, 1.5 meters in diameter. Branches spreading or diagonal spread, the bark is russet, thin and irregular cracking, aged old skin is relatively loose, touch easy to fall. North from Henan, Anhui and southeastern Shandong, south from Guangdong, Hunan, Taiwan, west to central Sichuan and Guizhou are distributed. Horsetail pine can be used to make medium and large bonsai, the performance of its branches is particularly prominent, is now widely used in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Because the ponytail pine is not afraid of the heat and humidity, but also for the Lingnan region pine bonsai the main material.

Luohan Pine

Luohan Pine symbolizes longevity, wealth, and good fortune in traditional Chinese culture. In the Guangdong area, there is a folk "family Luohan Pine, the world will not be poor," said. Luohan Pine is suitable for garden planting, planting; can also be used as hedges and bonsai. Can be planted in front of the door, the atrium planted alone, or in a corner of the wall and rockery, lake stone with. Spotted leaf Luo Han Pine can be planted as a flowerbed, can also be arranged for flower beds or potted plants to be displayed in the indoor enjoyment. Small-leafed Lohan Pine can also be planted as a garden hedge.