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(First upload on December 11 2008. Last on July 5 2016) [ 日本語 | English ]

Sciadopityaceae Luerss. (コウヤマキ)

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[Engler's syllabus エングラー体系] Formerly, in Taxodiaseae or Cupressaceae Living fossil with no close relatives (the oldest fossil = 230 million years ago) → Three families, Sciadopityaceae, Pinaceae and Taxodiaceae, were differentiated in the similar periods

Sciadopitys Siebold et Zucc. (コウヤマキ) This family consists of one species in one genus. misspelled as Scuadopitys in a few webpages

Sciadopitys verticillata in Japan

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Kouyamaki (コウヤマキ, 高野槇), Japanese umbrella pine Honmaki/Maki (本槇/真木) Lifeform: evergreen tree > 30 m high Distribution: endemic to central and southern Japan (widespread in fossil records) Habitat: mountainous forests HUSTEP: Plants and Plant communities in Japan (flora list)

Use: wood ☛ The Kiso five trees (木曽五木)

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[1] crown and bark (樹皮) transplanted in the Hokkaido University campus, Sapporo, on November 29 2008. [2] at the arboretum of Hokkaido Research Center, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, in Hitsujigaoka, Sapporo, on July 9 2013. [3/4] on Fukuura-jima Island in Matsushima Islands, northern Honshu, on March 21 2016.