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Picea maxomowiczii

Common Names

Taxonomic notes

Two varieties, the type and senanensis (1).

Description

Range

Japan: Honshu, in montane woodland on Fuji-San and Yatsugatake Mountains. (2).

Big Tree

Oldest

Dendrochronology

Ethnobotany

Observations

Remarks

Both varieties are listed by the WCMC as vulnerable: "confined to small and scattered populations in degraded montane woodland ... Both the habitat and the tree have been overexploited. Much of the habitat remains degraded and regeneration is poor" (2).

Citations

(1) Silba 1986.
(2) World Conservation Monitoring Centre - Trees.

See also Farjon 1990.


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This page is from the Gymnosperm Database
URL: http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Canopy/2285/pi/pic/maxomowiczii.htm
Edited by Christopher J. Earle
E-mail:earlecj@earthlink.net
Last modified on 19-Dec-98

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