page_title: Larch
section_title: Southern Euroasiatic species with long bracts
hierarchical_section_title: Larch / Species and taxonomy / Eurasian species / Southern Euroasiatic species with long bracts
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Colori autunnali nel Parco Nazionale del Gran Paradiso, Valle d'Aosta, Italia.English: Autumn colors in the Gran Paradiso National Park, Valle d'Aosta, Italy. This is a photo of a monument which is part of cultural heritage of Italy. This monument participates in the contest Wiki Loves Monuments Italia 2012. See authorisations. (wiki-ID: 007021278)
context_page_description: Larches are conifers in the genus Larix, of the family Pinaceae. Growing from 20 to 45 metres tall, they are native to much of the cooler temperate northern hemisphere, on lowlands in the north and high on mountains further south. Larches are among the dominant plants in the boreal forests of Siberia and Canada. Although they are conifers, larches are deciduous trees that lose their needles in the autumn.
context_section_description: Larix potaninii Batalin – Chinese larch. Mountains of southwestern China (Sichuan, northern Yunnan).
  Larix mastersiana Rehder & E.H.Wilson – Masters' larch. Mountains of western China.
  Larix griffithii Hook.f. (syn. L. griffithiana) – Himalayan larch. Mountains of the eastern Himalayas.
  Most if not all of the species can be hybridised in cultivation.
  Currently-accepted hybrids are:
  Larix × lubarskii Sukaczev
  Larix × maritima Sukaczev
  Larix × polonica Racib.
  A well-known hybrid, the Dunkeld larch Larix × marschlinsii (syn. L. × eurolepis, an illegitimate name), which arose more or less simultaneously in Switzerland and Scotland when L. decidua and L. kaempferi hybridised when planted together, is still treated as unresolved. Larix x stenophylla Sukaczev it is another probable hybrid still unresolved.
  Larch is used as a food plant by the larvae of a number of Lepidoptera species — see list of Lepidoptera that feed on larches.
caption: European larch in the Italian Alps
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