Foliage and cones (3).
Common Names
Taxonomic notes
Synonymy (all from (1)):L. olgensis Henry
L. amurensis Kolesn. ex Dylis
L. 1ubarskii Sukachev
L. olgensis f. intermedia Takenouchi
L. dahurica f. multilepis Liou & Wang
L. olgensis f. viridis Nakai.
L. olgensis var. koreana Nakai; L. dahurica var. koreana Nakai; L. gmelinii var. koreana (Nakai) Uyeki (1).
L. dahurica var. principis-rupprechtii f. viridis Wilson 1920 (1).
L. olgensis var. changpaiensis Yang & Chou; L. olgensis var. changpaiensis f. intermedia (Takenouchi) Yang & Nie; L. olgensis var. changpaiensis f. viridis (Wilson) Yang & Nie; L. olgensis var. changpaiensis f. pubibasis Yang & Nie (1).
Description
Tree to 30 m tall and 80 cm dbh. In coastal areas, it usually has a twisted trunk and deformed crown. Young shoots are reddish-brown, covered with dense reddish dawn. Leaves to 3 cm long. Cones to 3 cm long, on short shoots with leaves. Each cone has up to 50 scales. Seed scales rounded, velvety. Pollination in April-May, seeds mature in August-October (3).Range
Russia, China and North Korea. Locally common in coastal Ussuriland (Ol'ga Bay NE of Vladivostok is type loc.); rare and local inland. Found at a few locations in China (Jilin and E Liaoning) and North Korea (1, 3); also found at up to 1000 m in the Sikhote-Alin Mountains, Ussuriland (2). Listed as rare in Russia.Big Tree
The largest specimens are said to be on Oblachnaya Mt., in Ussuri River headwaters (3).Oldest
Dendrochronology
Ethnobotany
Observations
Easy to see along the coastal highway to Terney within Sikhote-Alinsky Zapovednik (3)Remarks
Citations
(1) Farjon 1990 .(2) Vladimir Dinets, e-mail communication, 2-Jan-1998.
(3) S. Harkevich and N. Kachura. 1981. Rare Plant Species of The Soviet Far East and Their Conservation. Nauka, Moscow (in Russian).
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