Pinus tabuliformis (Chinese Red Pine)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Pinus tabuliformis, photographed by Yi CHEN — fig. a Yi CHEN, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-03-13 / obs. 115936043

Pinus tabuliformis, photographed by Andy Kleinhesselink — fig. b Andy Kleinhesselink, CC0 1.0 / obs. 23714196

Pinus tabuliformis, photographed by Jens-Christian Svenning — fig. c Jens-Christian Svenning, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 77871815

Pinus tabuliformis, photographed by Nash Turley — fig. e Nash Turley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 12653165

Pinus tabuliformis, photographed by acaciajoe — fig. g acaciajoe, CC0 1.0 / obs. 52193678

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Native range 7 botanical countries

Native distribution of Pinus tabuliformis, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
China North-Central	CHN	ASIA-TEMPERATE
China South-Central	CHC
China Southeast	CHS
Inner Mongolia	CHI
Korea	KOR
Manchuria	CHM
Qinghai	CHQ

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.

Also published as 20 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.

Pinus densata subsp. wilsonii (Businsky) Silba
Pinus densiflora var. tabuliformis (Carrière) Mast.
Pinus leucosperma Maxim.
Pinus mukdensis Uyeki ex Nakai
Pinus sinensis Mayr
Pinus tabuliformis f. densa Q.Q.Liu & H.Y.Ye
Pinus tabuliformis f. jeholensis Liou & Z.Wang
Pinus tabuliformis f. purpurea Liou & Z.Wang
Pinus tabuliformis f. umbraculifera (Liou & Z.Wang) Q.L.Wang
Pinus tabuliformis subsp. mukdensis (Uyeki ex Nakai) Businsky
Pinus tabuliformis subsp. umbraculifera (Liou & Z.Wang) Silba
Pinus tabuliformis var. bracteata Taken.
Pinus tabuliformis var. brevifolia S.Y.Wang & C.L.Chang
Pinus tabuliformis var. rubescens Uyeki
Pinus tabuliformis var. tokunagae (Nakai) Taken.
Pinus tabuliformis var. tokunagai (Nakai) Taken.
Pinus tabuliformis var. wilsonii Businsky
Pinus taihangshanensis Hu & T.T.Yao
Pinus tokunagae Nakai
Pinus wilsonii Shaw

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.