Larch

Larix sp.

An unusual view of Larch, this picture shows a young male flower on the left, which will develop to produce clouds of pollen to be carried to the (separate) female flowers on the wind. Larch flowerA pink female flower is seen to the right of the picture; it will develop into the familiar small cone after fertilisation. Another female flower, from a different tree, is shown in the photo below. This tree is probably the hybrid or Dunkeld larch, which is a cross between the European larch Larix decidua and the Japanese larch L. leptolepsis.