Observed location: Washington Park Arboretum, Seattle, WA

Native range: China, northern Vietnam and Laos

• forests and rocky hillsides at elevation of 200–2,800 m.
• often grows as forest dominant, competes best in well-drained sandy and loamy soils
• common in the mountains east of the Dadu River (mountains of Sichuan)

Key characteristics:

• stiff, sharply pointed, glossy, flat, narrowly linear-lanceolate leaves growing in 2 ranks

• ovoid seed cones with scales with sharply pointed apex

Tools/resources used to identify:

• Arboretum’s tag
• iNaturalist
• Wikipedia
• The Gymnosperm Database
• OSU Landscape Plants
• additional image searches to compare/verify