blackheaddog

That's what I have learned about them, but they never look as cut and dried as that! Maybe the scales curl out very slightly but not very much etc……on some trees the twigs seem purple (as per Japanese larch) and straw coloured (as in European larch), but on others an in-between! These trees are in unmanaged private woodland so may have hybridised freely over the years…..

I am trying to identify local larches whether larix decidua or larix kaempferi or hybrids between the two. I have read that the european larch can have either red or green cones depending on altitude and temperature. I don't know whether this applies to the Japanese larch. Can anyone shed any light on this or any other aspect of ID?