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Pinus pseudostrobus
Also called False Weymouth Pine, Smoothbark Mexican Pine
Pinus pseudostrobus, the smooth-bark Mexican pine, is a conifer tree of Mexican and Central American forests, reaching 8 to 25 metres tall with a dense, rounded crown. It is grown as an ornamental and timber tree in suitable climates, and it needs full sun, good drainage and a cool-to-warm subtropical or temperate climate.
Pinus pseudostrobus, known in English as the smooth-bark Mexican pine and in Spanish as chamite or pacingo, is a tree found in forests of Mexico and Central America.
It is 8 to 25 metres (26 to 82 ft) tall with a dense and round top.It is threatened by logging and wood harvesting. The bark is brown and fissured and smooth when young. It is subject to ex situ conservation. It grows at altitudes between 850 and 3,250 metres (2,790 and 10,660 ft). from 26° to 15° north latitude, from Sinaloa, Mexico to Nicaragua and Honduras. It occurs within a rainfall regime that rains mostly in summer.
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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.
