Larix

Japanese: Larix

...It has local names such as Fujimatsu (illustration). It is a large deciduous tree of the pine family that grows in sunny areas in the highlands of Japan, and is beautiful both in its new green and yellow leaves. It is said that gardeners began calling it Karamatsu in the late Edo period because the shape of the new leaves resembles the pines in Chinese paintings. It reaches a height of 30m, and the bark on the trunk is peeled off in dark brown scales. It has a conical shape, and several thick branches grow in whorls. There are long branches and short branches 3-4mm long, and the long branches have spiral-shaped, linear needles 1-3cm long, while the short branches have bundles. Flowers bloom at the tops of 2-4 year old short branches at the same time as the new leaves appear in early spring. ...

From [Pine]

...The family Pinaceae consists of 10 genera and 220 species, distributed mainly in the temperate zone of the Northern Hemisphere (Figure). It is divided into three subfamilies: the subfamily Pinus ( Pinus genus), which has long and short branches with scale leaves on the former and needles on the latter; the subfamily Larix ( Larix genus, Pseudolarix genus, Cedrus genus), which has needles on long branches; and the subfamily Abies ( Abies genus, Tsuga genus, Picea genus, Pseudotsuga genus, Keteleeria genus), which has no short branches. The genus Cathaya in Sichuan Province, China, is similar to the genus Pseudotsuga, but it has both short and long branches, making it difficult to determine its affiliation. ...

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Larix" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…フジマツなどの地方名がある（イラスト）。日本の高地の日当りの良い土地に生えるマツ科の落葉大高木で，新緑，黄葉ともに美しい。新葉の形が唐絵のマツに似るので江戸末期に植木屋が唐松と呼び始めたという。高さ30mに達し，幹の樹皮は暗褐色のうろこ状にはげる。円錐形の樹形をなし，太枝は輪生状に数本ずつ出る。長枝と長さ3～4mmの短枝があり，長枝にはらせん状，短枝には束生状に長さ1～3cmの線形針葉をつける。早春新葉と同時に2～4年生の短枝頂に花を開く。…

【マツ(松)】より

…マツ科は10属220種が北半球のおもに温帯に分布する(図)。長枝と短枝があり，前者に鱗片葉，後者に針葉をつけるマツ亜科(マツ属Pinus)，長枝にも針葉がつくカラマツ亜科(カラマツ属Larix，イヌカラマツ属Pseudolarix，ヒマラヤスギ属Cedrus)，および短枝のないモミ亜科(モミ属Abies，ツガ属Tsuga，トウヒ属Picea，トガサワラ属Pseudotsuga，ユサン属Keteleeria)の3亜科に分類される。中国四川省にあるカタヤ属Cathayaはトガサワラ属に似るが，短枝と長枝があり，所属を決めがたい。…

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