Larix gmelinii

Dahurian larch is a fast-growing large tree reaching 30 m tall that forms extensive forests along with Siberian or Russian larch (Larix sibirica) east of the River Yenisei in Siberia, Kamchatka, Korea, northeast Mongolia and neighboring northern China. It grows in both mountain ranges and swamps north to subarctic plains.

• The crown is broad conic, with main and side branches level, only rarely drooping. Shoots are dimorphic (having both long and short shoots).
• Needle-like foliage is deciduous, is 2–3 cm long, in dense bunches of 30–40 leaves , colour light green, turning to intense bright yellow or orange before falling late in autumn, leaving reddish-brown shoots bare until the next spring.
• Cones are non-fragmenting, erect, ovoid, 1–2 cm long, with 15–25 moderately reflexed seed scales; cones are green when immature, turning brown in the fall and releasing seeds. Old cones can remain on the trees for many years.
• Bark is gray, scaly and fissured.