Caribbean pine [1] ( lat. Pinus caribaea ), ( Spanish: pino macho ) - a species of conifers of the genus Pine of the Pine family ( Pinaceae ).
| Caribbean Pine | |||||||||||||||||||
 General view of the tree | |||||||||||||||||||
| Scientific classification | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| |||||||||||||||||||
| International scientific name | |||||||||||||||||||
Pinus caribaea Morelet , 1851 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||
| Security status | |||||||||||||||||||
Distribution and Ecology
Distribution: Bahamas , Belize , Cuba , Guatemala , Honduras , Mexico , Nicaragua , Turks and Caicos Islands . On the mainland, the species range extends to the east coast of the Atlantic Ocean.
A tropical species that grows at heights of 1-400 m above sea level, with an amount of precipitation of about 1000-1800 mm per year.
Caribbean pine is also introduced in Jamaica , Fiji , Colombia , South Africa and China .
Botanical Description
An evergreen tree 20–35 m high, with an average trunk diameter of 50–100 cm.
The bark is rough, lamellar, gray-brown.
Young shoots are reddish-brown, rough, bare and scaly.
The color of the needles varies from light green to dark green. Needles are collected in bundles of 3 (less often 2 or 4) needles, 15-26 cm long.
Mature cones are ovoid in shape, fairly symmetrical; length 5–12 cm, diameter 4–6 cm. The color of seeds varies from light gray-brown to red, size 5–7 × 2.5–3.5 mm, with a wing 10–20 mm long.
Taxonomy
- Pinus caribaea , Revue Horticole de la Cote-D'Or 1: 107 . 1851.
Synonyms
- Pinus caribaea var. anomala rowlee
- Pinus caribaea var. caribaea
- Pinus recurvata rowlee
Varieties
For this species there are 2 varieties [2] :
- Pinus caribaea var. bahamensis (Griseb.) WH Barrett et Golfari (syn. P. bahamensis Grisebach ) - Bahamian pine, area of the Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Islands
- Pinus caribaea var. hondurensis (Sénécl.) WH Barrett et Golfari (syn. P. hondurensis Sénéclauze , P. hondurensis Loock non Sénéclauze ) - Honduran pine, range - Honduras and neighboring countries.
Notes
- ↑ Voskoboinikova I.V., Zhilkina A.V. Analysis of the collection fund of pines of the Sochi arboretum // Materials of the All-Russian Scientific and Practical Conference. Novocherkassk Engineering and Land Reclamation Institute A.K. Kortunova; FSBEI IN the Don GAU. - 2017 .-- S. 43-48 .
- ↑ See the TPL link in the plant card.
Literature
- Cordero, J. and DH Boshier (eds.). 2004. Pinus caribaea Morelet. pp. 761–766 in Árboles de Centroamérica. UK: Oxford Forestry Institute (OFI) and Costa Rica: Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE).
- Dvorak, WS, GR Hodge, EA Gutiérrez, LF Osorio, FS Malan and TK Stanger. * 2000. Conservation and Testing of Tropical and Subtropical Forest Species by the CAMCORE Cooperative. College of Natural Resources, NCSU. Raleigh, NC. USA
- Figueroa Sierra, CF 2002. Ecología y conservación de Pinus tropicalis en bosques naturales de las alturas de pizarras. Dissertation, University Pinar del Río (Cuba) and University Alicante (Spain), 124 p.
- Pinus caribaea // Flora of China : [ eng. ] = 中国 植物 志 : in 25 vol. / ed. by Z. Wu , PH Raven , . - Beijing: Science Press; St. Louis: Missouri Botanical Garden Press, 1999 .-- Vol. 4: Cycadaceae through Fagaceae. - P. 20. - 453 p. - ISBN 978-0-915279-34-0 . - ISBN 978-0-915279-70-8 (vol. 4).
Links
- Pinus caribaea (English) : Tropicos taxon information.
- Pinus caribaea (pino macho) description / Christopher J. Earle (ed.) // The Gymnosperm Database. - Date of appeal: 05/10/2019.