| Mexican Weeping Pine |
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| File size | 568444 |
| Original date | 9/9/04 4:00 PM |
| Resolution | 0 x 0 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 240.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/60s |
| Aperture | 5.3 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D70 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Pinus patula Family: Pinaceae (Pine family)
Synonyms: Pinus patula var. macrocarpa, Pinus patula var. patula
Synonyms: Pinus patula var. macrocarpa, Pinus patula var. patula
Mexican Weeping Pine is a tree up to 25m tall with
bark reddish-brown, irregularly fissured, winter buds oblong, to 2 cm;
scales lanceshaped, to 1 cm, tapering, margins fringed. Leaves are 20
cm, margins toothed, tip pointed; basal sheath to 1.5 cm, persistent.
Male cones are oblong, up to 1 x 0.5 cm, clustered. Microsporophylls
obovoid-oblong, to 0.1 cm, hood rounded, to 0.05 cm. Female cones are
2-8-clustered, broadly ellipsoid, later ovoid-ellipsoid, to 12 x 4 cm,
pale brown, reflexed, oblique at base, stalk scaly. Scales are 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, tip mucronate; bract-scale inverted-heart-shaped, 0.1 x 0.18 cm.
Seeds 0.4 x 0.2 cm; wings to 1 x 0.5 cm. Mexican Weeping Pine is native
to Mexico.
| Identification credit: S. Jeevith | Photographed in Government Botanical Garden, The Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu. |
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