Keteleeria davidiana

Keteleeria davidiana is in the pine or Pinaceae family and is native to southeast China (provinces of Gansu, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Shaanxi, Sichuan, and Yunnan), Taiwan and northern Vietnam. It can reach 50 metres tall and is occasionally forked.

• Crown is broad and conical, somewhat irregular. Branchlets have a dense covering of stiff hairs.
• Needle-like leaves are flat, stiff, dark shiny green, 2–6.4 cm long and 3.6–4.2 mm wide, spirally attached but oriented in 1 plane, tip pointed.
• Male cones ( strobili) are lateral or terminal, on stocks 1–1.5 cm long, yellow with brown scales. Seed cones are solitary, erect, cylindrical, light brown, 8–20 cm long and 4–5 cm across, apex obtuse, on stocks 2–6 cm long; cone is green or purple, ripening to pale brown.
• Bark is dull brown, grey-brown, thick and corky, becoming darker and scaly in older trees.