Smooth-barked Mexican Pine

It is 8 to 25 m tall, dense and round top, the bark is brown and fissured and smooth when young. It grows between 1300-3250 m. From 26° to 15° north latitude, from Sinaloa, Mexico to Honduras. It occurs within a rainfalls regime mostly in summer. A stand of about 15 fully mature Mexican Pines is in Imperial County, California, at the Palo Verde County Park, in a narrow strip of land between Hwy 78 and the Colorado River.

Pinus pseudostrobus forms pure stands or grows in association with P. montezumae, P. douglasiana, P. devoniana, P. maximinoi, P. leiophylla, P. ayacahuite, P. patula, P. cembroides, P. hartwegii, P. pringlei, Abies religiosa, Quercus sp., Arbutus sp., Juniperus sp., Buddleia sp., and Dasylirion sp. (Eguiluz-Piedra 1978, Perry 1991, both cited in Lopez-Upton 2003). The best stands are found at 2500 m on deep volcanic soils. This tree can also be found in swallow and calcareous soils. More

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