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Pinus massoniana, Lamb. Tree, to 80 ft., with slender, spreading branches: branchlets yellowish brown: lvs. very slender and thin, light green, 5-8 in. long: cones oblong-ovate or ovate, dull brown, 2-3 in. long; apophysis flattened, slightly keeled, with a small, flat, unarmed umbo; seed 1/5 in. long. China.—Not hardy N. and rarely cult. Often confounded with P. sinensis and P. densiflora.
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syn. Pinus sinensis, Lamb. (P. leucos- perma, Maxim. P. funebris, Komar. P. Henryi, Mast. P. Wilsonii, Shaw. P. tabuliformis. Carr.). Tree, to 70 ft.: bark of trunk dark gray, fissured, red on the limbs: branchlets pale orange-yellow or pale grayish yellow, slightly bloomy while young: winter buds oblong, light brown, lustrous, slightly or not resinous: lvs. 2-3, of tener 2, stiff, glaucescent, with rough margins, 2—4 in. long: cones subsessile, ovoid, 1 1/2 -2 1/2 in. long, persistent for several years, pale yellow- brown ; apophysis rhombic, prominently keeled, with an obtuse or mucronate umbo; seeds brown, mottled or whitish, over 1/4 in. long, with the wing 3/4 in. long. Cent, and W. China. Var. densata, Shaw (P. densata, Mast. P. prominens, Mast.). Lvs. 3-5 in. long, stiff: cones ovoid, 2 - 2 1/2 in. long, oblique, with their posterior apophysis tumid and Prominent. Var. yunnanensis, shaw (P. yunnanensis, Franch.). Lvs. oftener 3, slender, 4-8 in. long: cones 2 1/2-3 1/2in. long; apophysis flat; umbo small; seed with wing nearly 1 in. long. S.W. China. 

Group 10. Australes.
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==References==
*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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