Larix mastersiana

Masters larch is in the pine or Pinaceae family and is native to China, on the western edge of the Sichuan basin of Sichuan Province, growing at elevations of 8,000 to 11,200 feet (2,500 – 3,500 m) above sea level. It is a medium-sized conifer reaching a height of up to about 25 m.

• The crown is broad conic, with pendulous main shoots. Shoots are dimorphic (having both long and short shoots).
• Needle-like foliage is deciduous, 12–3.5 cm long, in dense bunches of 30–40 leaves , colour light green, turning to bright yellow or orangish before falling late in autumn, leaving yellow-brown shoots bare until the next spring.
• Seed cones are non-fragmenting, erect, cylindric-ellipsoid in shape, 2.5–4.0 cm long, with 50–100 smooth seed scales; each scale has an extended and lanciolate bract up to 1.5 cm long; cones are purple when immature, turning darker brown in the fall and releasing seeds.
• Bark is gray or gray-brown, scaly and fissured.