Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations
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Native range 2 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| China South-Central | CHC | ASIA-TEMPERATE |
| China Southeast | CHS |
Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.
Where it actually grows measured, from 463 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | -2.6 °C | 6.5 °C | 13.8 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 20.8 °C | 28.6 °C | 32.6 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 1,143 mm | 2,328 mm | 4,565 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 70 mm | 205 mm | 544 mm |
It is found where winters bring light frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 463 research-grade observations of Cunninghamia lanceolata that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.
This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.
Also published as 17 synonyms
A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.
- Abies batavorum Siebold ex Carrière
- Abies lanceolata (Lamb.) Poir.
- Belis jaculifolia (Lamb.) Salisb.
- Belis lanceolata (Lamb.) Hoffmanns.
- Cunninghamia chinensis de Vos
- Cunninghamia jaculifolia (Salisb.) Druce
- Cunninghamia lanceolata var. corticosa Z.Y.Que & J.X.Li
- Cunninghamia lanceolata var. lanceolata
- Cunninghamia lanceolata var. unicanaliculata (D.Y.Wang & H.L.Liu) Silba
- Cunninghamia sinensis (Lamb.) Rich.
- Cunninghamia sinensis var. prolifera Lemée & H.Lév.
- Cunninghamia unicanaliculata D.Y.Wang & H.L.Liu
- Cunninghamia unicanaliculata var. pyramidalis D.Y.Wang & H.L.Liu
- Larix chinensis Mill.
- Pinus abies Lour.
- Pinus lanceolata Lamb.
- Raxopitys cunninghamii (Lamb.) J.Nelson
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
- Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
- Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.
We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.