Keteleeria evelyniana

Evelyn keteleeria is in the pine or Pinaceae family and is native to southern China, Laos and Vietnam. It can reach 40 metres tall and is occasionally forked.

• Crown is broad and conical, somewhat irregular. Branchlets are slender, yellowish or reddish brown, becoming grey-brown with age, conspicuously grooved; young shoots pinkish green; vegetative buds are not resinous.
• Needle-like leaves are 3–6.5 cm long and 2–4 mm wide, glaucous or dark green above, greenish white below, with a pointed or obtuse apex.
• Male cones ( strobili) are lateral or terminal, on stocks (pedunculate) 1–1.5 cm long, yellow with brown scales. Seed cones are solitary, erect, cylindrical, 9–20 cm long and 4–6.5 cm across, apex obtuse, on stocks 2–6 cm long; cone is green or purple, ripening to pale brown.
• Bark is grey-brown, thick and corky, becoming darker and scaly in older trees.