Larch Japanese seeds

Japanese larch / Larix kaempferi

A genus of deciduous conifers. Specific larches are huge, powerful, fast-growing trees with a transparent through crown. The deciduousness and openwork of the crown distinguish larches from the general range of conifers and allow them to be used in design in a slightly different way than evergreen species.

Biological description:

Beautiful, fast-growing tree up to 35m tall. Long, thick, almost horizontal branches form a peculiar, wide-pyramidal crown. For the most part, the multi-vertex trunk is covered with relatively thin, reddish-brown bark. Young shoots are reddish with a bluish bloom. The bark of the branches is gray, the buds are shiny, dark brown. The needles are long, up to 5 cm long, blue-green.

Cones in youth - yellowish-green, spherical (2-3 cm) with thin, leathery scales, bent at the top like rose petals, remain on the branches for up to 3 years. Seed scales numerous, thin, rosette-shaped, rounded. The seeds are small, light brown, with a dark brown wing.

The needles are painted in autumn in bright yellow tones much later than other species, creating bright spots in plantings within a month.

Usually it does not suffer from frost, the shoots become completely woody. Quite demanding on soil conditions, prefers clay and loamy soils, photophilous, demanding on air humidity, develops well in urban conditions.