blue pine

Pinus wallichiana

Summary 2

Pinus wallichiana is a coniferous evergreen tree native to the Himalaya, Karakoram and Hindu Kush mountains, from eastern Afghanistan east across northern Pakistan and north west India to Yunnan in southwest China. It grows in mountain valleys at altitudes of 1800–4300 m (rarely as low as 1200 m), between 30 m and 50 m in height. It favours a temperate climate with dry winters and wet summers. In Pashto, it is known as - Peuch.

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  1. (c) Robin Abraham, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pinus_wallichiana_cone.jpg
  2. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinus_wallichiana

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