Larix potaninii

Chinese larch is a small tree native only to severe high elevations (2600 to 3500 m) in Tibet and China, reaching up to 50 m tall. It is endangered in the wild.

• Crown is conical, branches reaching out horizontally in natural stands. Long shoots are slender and pendant, red-brown or purple-brown in color; short shoots are 3–8 mm long, supporting clusters of needles.
• Deciduous needles are light, 12–35 mm long, bright green to blue-green, bunches of 15–30 per shoot, prominently keeled on both sides so as to seem 4-sided, with a pointed apex. Foliage turns intense golden-yellow to orange in autumn before dropping off.
• Cones are upright, sessile (attaching to the branch without a stalk), cylindrical to oval, up to 7.5 cm long and 2.5 cm across, initially reddish-purple with green extruding bracts; mature to light brown, bracts extending from the cone scales.
• Bark is gray or gray-brown in color, smooth when young, becoming rough and longitudinally fissured on old trees.