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Pinus ayacahuite
Also called Ayacahuite Pine
Pinus ayacahuite is a large evergreen pine from the mountains of southern Mexico and Central America, grown as a tall timber and paper tree and occasionally as an ornamental. Its key needs are full sun and well-drained soil.
Pinus ayacahuite, also called ayacahuite pine and Mexican white pine, (family Pinaceae) is a species of pine native to the mountains of southern Mexico and western Central America, in the Sierra Madre del Sur mountains and the eastern end of the Eje Volcánico Transversal, between 14° and 21°N latitude in the Mexican states of Guerrero, Oaxaca, Puebla, Veracruz and Chiapas, and in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. It grows on relatively moist areas with summer rainfalls, however specimens from its eastern and southern distribution live under really wet conditions; it needs full sun and well drained soils. Its temperature needs fluctuate between 19 and 10 °C on average a year. This tree accepts from subtropical to cool climate.
Pinus ayacahuite is a large tree, regularly growing to 30–45 m and exceptionally up to 50 m tall.
It has been planted with ornamental and commercial purposes for paper industry at different latitudes and elevations in different parts of the world:
In Equatorial and tropical regions- Commercial production: On the high elevations of Kenya, Tanzania and Angola.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pinus ayacahuite by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
