Larix Miller

5. Larix Miller View in CoL 1

Deciduous trees with irregularly whorled branches. Twigs of two kinds: long shoots bearing scattered leaves; and persistent spurlike shoots bearing tufts of leaves. All leaves linear, usually flattened and thin. Resin-canals 2. Cones ripening in the first year, subglobose to oblong; scales rounded, persistent; bracts exceeding ovuliferous scales in flower, hidden or exserted at maturity.

In addition to the species described below L. laricina (Duroi) C. Koch , Dendrol. 2 (2): 263 (1873), from E. North America is cultivated on a small scale in Europe. It is like 4, but with somewhat shorter leaves, and young branches usually glaucous.

1 Youngshootsglaucous; leaveswithtwodistinctwhite,stomatiferous bands beneath; cone-scales recurved at apex

1. kaempferi

1 Young shoots not glaucous; leaves without white stomatiferous bands beneath 2 Cone-scales glabrousoutside 4. gmelinii 2 Cone-scalespuberulent or shortlytomentoseoutside 3 Cone-scales straight, about twice as long as the bracts

2. decidua 3 Cone-scales slightly incurved at apex, convex, about three times as long as the bracts 3. russica