48. Pinus bhutanica Grierson, Long & Page PINACEAE
This species was distinguished from the blue pine (Pinus wallichiana, Number 13 of the Trail) only in 1980, as part of the research undertaken for the Flora of Bhutan at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Like the blue pine, its needles are in clusters of five, but it differs in its gracefully drooping foliage. It occurs from Central Bhutan eastwards to North-West Yunnan and South-East Tibet, and in India occurs in the state of Arunachal Pradesh. It grows in cool broad-leaved forest, between altitudes of 1750 and 2440 metres.
Photograph of a cone of Pinus bhutanica, RBGE herbarium
RBGE Living Collections Accession Factsheet
Accession Number:19841998
Scientific Name:Pinus bhutanica Grierson, D.G.Long & C.N.Page
Family:Pinaceae
Genus:Pinus
Epithet:bhutanica
Collector:Sinclair, Ian W.J. & Long, David G.
Year:1984
Origin:Bhutan, Sikkim & Darjeeling:Punakha Dist.:Thinleygang
Elevation:1,800m
Plant:19841998O
Location:/Living Collections/External/XIV
Plant:19841998Z
Location:/Living Collections/External/XTN
Plant:19841998I
Location:/Living Collections/Unplaced
Plant:19841998C
Location:/Living Collections/Benmore/YT2/635
Plant:19841998N
Location:/Living Collections/External/XBD
Plant:19841998W
Location:/Living Collections/External/XCY
Plant:19841998B
Location:/Living Collections/Logan/Z50
Plant:19841998X
Location:/Living Collections/Benmore/YT2/670
Plant:19841998L
Location:/Living Collections/Unplaced
Plant:19841998M
Location:/Living Collections/External/XTV
Plant:19841998AB
Location:/Living Collections/External/XMS
Plant:19841998G
Location:/Living Collections/External/XEX
Plant:19841998A
Location:/Living Collections/Unplaced
Plant:19841998Q
Location:/Living Collections/External/XIV
Plant:19841998F
Location:/Living Collections/Unplaced
Plant:19841998H
Location:/Living Collections/Benmore/YF8
Plant:19841998R
Location:/Living Collections/External/XIV
Plant:19841998Y
Location:/Living Collections/Unplaced
Plant:19841998AA
Location:/Living Collections/External/XTN
Plant:19841998S
Location:/Living Collections/External/XGD
Plant:19841998D
Location:/Living Collections/Unplaced
Plant:19841998V
Location:/Living Collections/Unplaced
Plant:19841998J
Location:/Living Collections/External/XTV
Plant:19841998T
Location:/Living Collections/Unplaced
Plant:19841998K
Location:/Living Collections/External/XTV
Plant:19841998P
Location:/Living Collections/External/XIV
Plant:19841998E
Location:/Living Collections/Inverleith/C13/ZZH040
Plant:19841998U
Location:/Living Collections/Unplaced
