Pinus massoniana

LATIN NAME: PINUS MASSONIANA

COMMON NAME: Masson’s Pine

The Masson’s pine tresses the tall, evergreen conifer with the long, slender, drooping, grey-green needles in the pairs and the flaking, grey-brown bark, the long needles tressiing downward along the open branches, the small, egg-shaped cones following, the cones holding the small, winged seeds. The tree grows quickly into the open, rounded crown, and it stands the heat and the poor, dry soil well. It likes the sun, and the well-drained soil.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

The long, drooping needles of the Masson’s pine give it a recognised place in the research on the warm-climate timber pines of the great pine group, and the massoniana species appears in the studies of the resin-yielding conifers and the poor-slope growth. The work looks at the way the grey-green needles tress downward, the quick timber and resin value, and the seed biology. The foresters value the wood, and the growers of the warm-climate shelter and ornamental pines keep the species in their catalogues.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

In the warm, dry ground, the Masson’s pine tresses the warm garden with the long, drooping needles. The timber serves the building, the boxes and the resin trade for the ages, the cones feed the birds, and the tree makes the fine windbreak. It grows well in the well-drained, sunny ground. Long-needled, resin-rich and quick.

To grow the Masson’s Pine from seed, sow the seeds into the deep, sandy drills of the seedbed in the autumn, then cover them lightly, keep the drills gently watered.

Sow the seeds into the deep, sandy drills of the seedbed, and give the young trees the open, sunny spot. The tress needles come within a few seasons. , and the young trees emerge through the spring. The tress needles will droop within a few seasons.

The species is a common trees in plantation forestry for replacing or compensating of the loss of the natural forest in southern China.[Chinese rosin is obtained mainly from the turpentine of this Pine (Pinus massoniana) and Slash Pine (P. elliottii).

Logs are mainly used to make pulp for paper industry.