Jelecote Pine (LA Urban Forest Program)

Jelecote Pine

Pinus patula

Summary ⁷

Patula pine, pino patula, pinus patula (spreading-leaved pine, Mexican weeping pine, pino llorón in Spanish)(patula Latin = spreading) is a tree native to the highlands of Mexico. It grows from 24° to 18° North latitude and 1800 to 2700 m above sea level. 30 m tall. It does not stand long periods of temperatures as low as –10°C, but resists occasional brief below zero dips. It is moderately drought-tolerant, in this scope is superior than Pinus...

Description ⁸

Tree, to 40 m. Leaves 15-22 cm, light green, in bundles of 3(-5), pendulous; basal sheath persistent. Female cones 7-10 cm, ovoid-conic, slightly curved, lateral, subsessile, in clusters of 2-5. Seeds 5 mm, triangular; wing 12-20 mm.

Diagnostic ⁹

"Tree to 25 m; bark reddish-brown, irregularly fissured; winter buds oblongish, to 2 cm; scales lanceolate, to 1 cm, acuminate, margins fringed. Leaves in 3s, to 20 cm, margins serrulate, apex acute; basal sheath to 1.5 cm, persistent. Staminate cones oblong, to 1 x 0.5 cm, clustered. Microsporophylls obovoid-oblong, to 0.1 cm, hood rounded, to 0.05 cm. Pistillate cones 2-8-clustered, broadly ellipsoid, later ovoid-ellipsoid, to 12 x 4 cm, pale brown, reflexed, oblique at base, stalk scaly. Ovuliferous scales broadly obovate becoming obovate-oblong, to 2.5 x 1 cm; exposed part rhomboidal, concave with 2 shallow furrows at right angles to each other, apex mucronate; bract-scale obcordate, 0.1 x 0.18 cm. Seeds 0.4x 0.2 cm; wings to 1 x 0.5 cm."

Fuentes y créditos

(c) James Gaither, algunos derechos reservados (CC BY-NC-ND), http://www.flickr.com/photos/jim-sf/3517595507/
(c) 106757949696626451802, algunos derechos reservados (CC BY-NC), subido por 106757949696626451802, https://picasaweb.google.com/106757949696626451802/PinoPatula#5832247777246399890
(c) Dick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada, algunos derechos reservados (CC BY), https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Pinus_patula%2C_UC_Berkeley_Botanical_Gardens_1.jpg
(c) Forest & Kim Starr, algunos derechos reservados (CC BY), https://www.biolib.cz/IMG/GAL/51610.jpg
(c) García-Martínez Miguel A., algunos derechos reservados (CC BY-NC), subido por García-Martínez Miguel A.
Adaptado por earthwatchtrees del trabajo de (c) Wikipedia, algunos derechos reservados (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinus_patula
(c) Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings, algunos derechos reservados (CC BY-NC), http://eol.org/data_objects/19231825
(c) India Biodiversity Portal, algunos derechos reservados (CC BY), http://eol.org/data_objects/26332046