Tags: Conifer.
Pinus gerardiana known as the Chilgoza pine(Urdu: چلغوزا پائن in Persian it means 40 nuts in one cone:چهل و غوزه) ‘noosa’ or ‘neoza’ is a pine native to the northwestern Himalaya in eastern Afghanistan Pakistan and northwest India growing at elevations between 1800–3350 m. It often occurs in association with Blue Pine (Pinus wallichiana) and Deodar Cedar (Cedrus deodara).The trees are 10-20(-25) m tall with usually deep wide and open crowns with long erect branches.
