Used in construction, for mining poles, matches, ordinary furniture, boxes and underwater construction (on land, it is easily attacked by termites and insects). According to Forest Inventory and Planning Institute, this conifer's sapwood and heartwood are distinctive - heartwood is yellow-brown, coarsely veined, straight and light wood light (density 0.39-0.49). Although Masson spent most of his time in South Africa, he is known at times, to have worked in China, and sent plant material to Alymer Lambert.Įthnobotany. The species honors Francis Masson (1741 - 1805), the first plant collector sent out by the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. Pinus massoniana, first described in 1803 by Aylmer Bourke Lambert (1761–1842), is commonly known as Masson pine, Horsetail pine, or Chinese red pine as well as 马尾松 (ma wei song) in the Chinese language and as Thông duôi ngua, or Thông tàu Vietnamese. This is one of the “classic” old-world, 2-needled, hard pines. Subgenus Pinus, section, Pinus, subsection Pinus.
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