Pinus engelmannii

Pinus engelmannii

Engelmannii, and Apache pine or Engelmann's pine Pinus called, a species of the genus of the pines is (Pinus ).

Dissemination

The home of Pinus engelmannii is located in northern Mexico in the Sierra Madre Occidental mountain range and adjacent southernmost part of the U.S. states of New Mexico and Arizona.

Description

Pinus engelmannii an evergreen tree, the stature heights of 20 to 30 meters and trunk diameter is reached from 35 to 80 cm. The bark is dark brown and cracked. The tree crown is loose beastet.

The dark green needles are in groups of three, sometimes in twos or fives bundles. They are 20 to 40 cm long; Pinus engelmannii thus belongs to the pine species with the longest needles.

The cones are 8-16 cm long; they are ovate at the base often asymmetric. The bracts are tight-fitting. Immature cones are green to purple-brown, mature cones are brown.

Naming

The name part engelmannii was awarded by the French botanist Carrière in 1854 in honor of American botanist of German descent George Engelmann. Engelmann named the species in 1848 originally Pinus macrophylla; as this name, however, was assigned twice, had the pine species are renamed (since 1839 Lindley had already awarded Pinus macrophylla for a different kind ).

Synonyms: Pinus latifolia Sargent, P. macrophylla Engelmann Wislizenus in 1848, non Lindley 1839, P. apacheca Lemmon, P. ponderosa var macrophylla ( Engelmann ) Shaw, P. mayriana Sudworth, P. ponderosa var mayriana ( Sudworth ) Sargent, P. macrophylla var blancoi Martínez, P. engelmannii var blancoi ( Martínez ) Martínez. Previously this species as a subspecies of ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) was therefore considered.