European Larch
- Botanical Name
- Larix decidua
- Min Zone
- 3
- Max Zone
- 6
- Height
- 70 to 75 feet
- Width
- 25 to 30 feet
- Flowers
- Female flowers are egg-shaped and .25 to .75 inches long, in reds, pinks, yellows or green; male flowers are smaller and yellow
- Fruit
- Cone: oval with overlapping, straight scales, purple maturing to brown, 1 to 1.5 inches
- Fall Color
- Gold
- Light
- Full sun
- Soil
- Moist, well-drained
- Planting & Care
- Best in moist soil, tolerant of temporary flooding and wet conditions
- Intolerant of hot, dry and shady sites
- Tolerant of air pollution and wind
- Problems
- Larch case-bearer, cakers, rusts, larch sawfly, Japanese beetles, wooly larch aphid
- Varieties
- Pendula - weeping form
- Varied Directions - unique, weeping, spreading form
- Fastigiata - columnar form with short ascending branches
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