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Pinus muricata D.Don

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Pinus muricata D.Don
Pinus muricata D.Don

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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D.Don
D.Don
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Pinus muricata D.Don
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Pinus muricata

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muricata

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Pinus muricata D.Don

Small to medium-sized, widespreading, often dense, ± erect tree. Bark deeply fissured, dark grey on surface, reddish brown beneath. Shoots greenish brown or brown, ± shining, glabrous. Buds cylindric or conic-cylindric, purplish, resinous; scales usually tightly appressed, rarely the apices free. Lvs usually 2, very rarely 3 or 4 per fascicle, 7-15 cm × c. 1-1.5 mm, ± curved except on vigorous erect leader shoots, greyish green or bluish green when fresh, rather rigid and pungently pointed; resin canals median; sheaths to c. 2 cm long initially, becoming much shorter later. ♂ strobili broad-cylindric or subglobose, 5-15 mm long. Conelets subsessile; scales with long prickly mucros. Mature cones mostly in clusters of 4-5, sessile or subsessile, backward pointing, remaining closed on the tree for many years, (5)-6-9 × (3.5)-4-6 cm when closed, ovoid, asymmetric, chestnut-brown when ripe; umbos with rigid prickles well-developed on the large convex apophyses of the lower upper side. Seed wing asymmetric, ± oblong, 1-2 cm long.

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Pinus muricata D.Don
Pinus muricata D.Don
Pinus muricata D.Don
Pinus muricata D.Don
Pinus muricata D.Don
Pinus muricata D.Don
Pinus muricata D.Don
Pinus muricata D.Don

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Pinus muricata D.Don
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Pinus muricata D.Don
New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
Pinus muricata D.Don
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Pinus muricata D.Don
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Pinus muricata D.Don
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Pinus muricata D.Don
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Pinus muricata D.Don
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Pinus muricata D.Don
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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430b3e16-2b47-49be-8a93-92497e73ff43
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
27 June 2003
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