See (3, 4) for illustrations.

Tsuga dumosa (D. Don) Eichler

Common Names

Himalayan hemlock; Yunnan tieshan (4).

Taxonomic notes

Syn: Pinus dumosa D. Don; Tsuga brunoniana (Wallich) Carrière; T. yunnanensis (Franch.) Pritzel; T. dumosa var. chinensis (Franch.) Pritzel, quoad plant. Yunnan.; T. leptophylla Hand.-Mzt.; T. intermedia Hand.-Mzt.; T. dura Downie; T. wardii Downie; T. calcarea Downie; T. mairei Lemée et Léveillé (4).

Description

See (4).

Range

Himalaya: India from Uttar Pradesh to the Assam Himal (Arunachal Pradesh); N Burma; SE Tibet; China: NW Yunnan and into SW Sichuan (4).

Big Tree

A photograph of a specimen 320 cm dbh growing in Yunnan near Tibet appears in (3).

Oldest

Dendrochronology

I can find (Feb-1999) only one exploratory study (5).

Ethnobotany

Observations

Remarks

Citations

(1) Silba 1986.
(2) Cheng & Fu 1987.
(3) Parkenham, T. 1997. Meetings with remarkable trees. Random House. Page 9.
(4) Farjon 1990.
(5) Amalava Bhattacharyya, Valmore C. LaMarche Jr., and Malcolm K. Hughes. 1992 Tree-ring chronologies from Nepal. Tree-Ring Bulletin 52: 59-66.

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