Datasheet
Larix sibirica (Siberian larch)
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Top of pagePreferred Scientific Name
- Larix sibirica Ledeb.
Preferred Common Name
- Siberian larch
Other Scientific Names
- Larix russica (Endl.) Sabine ex Trautv.
- Larix sukaczewii Dylis
International Common Names
- English: Russian larch
- Spanish: alerce de Siberia
- French: mélèze de Sibérie
- Russian: listvennica Sibirskaïa
Local Common Names
- Germany: Lärche, Sibirische
- Italy: larice siberiano
- Netherlands: siberische lork
- Sweden: sibirisk lärk
EPPO code
- LAXSI (Larix russica)
Trade name
- larch
Taxonomic Tree
Top of page- Domain: Eukaryota
- Kingdom: Plantae
- Phylum: Spermatophyta
- Subphylum: Gymnospermae
- Class: Pinopsida
- Family: Pinaceae
- Genus: Larix
- Species: Larix sibirica
List of Pests
Top of pageMajor host of:
Cephalcia lariciphila (european web-spinning larch sawfly); Dendrolimus superans sibiricus (Siberian silk moth); Heterobasidion parviporum; Ips hauseri (Kyrgyz mountain engraver); Ips subelongatus (larch bark beetle); Megastigmus pictus (larch seed chalcid); Monochamus sutor (small white-marmorated longicorn); Mycosphaerella laricina; Pristiphora erichsonii (larch sawfly); Scolytus morawitzi (scolytid of Morawitz); Sirex ermak (blue-black horntail); Tetropium gracilicorne (fine-horned spruce borer); Xylotrechus altaicus (Altay longhorn beetle)Minor host of:
Elatobium abietinum (green spruce aphid); Heterobasidion annosum; Hylurgops palliatus (lesser spruce shoot beetle); Lachnellula willkommii (European larch canker); Orgyia antiqua (European tussock moth); Pissodes piniphilus (pine-top weevil); Pityogenes chalcographus (sixtoothed spruce bark beetls); Tetropium castaneum (black spruce beetle)Wild host of:
Fomitopsis pinicola (brown crumbly rot)Host of (source - data mining):
Eurytoma laricis; Melampsoridium hiratsukanum (alder rust)Uses List
Top of pageEnvironmental
- Shade and shelter
- Windbreak
Fuels
- Fuelwood
General
- Ornamental
Materials
- Dye/tanning
- Essential oils
- Fibre
- Miscellaneous materials
- Wood/timber
Wood Products
Top of pageContainers
- Boxes
- Cases
- Crates
- Pallets
Furniture
Pulp
- Long-fibre pulp
Railway sleepers
Roundwood
- Building poles
- Pit props
- Posts
- Roundwood structures
- Stakes
- Transmission poles
Sawn or hewn building timbers
- Beams
- Carpentry/joinery (exterior/interior)
- Exterior fittings
- Fences
- Flooring
- For heavy construction
- For light construction
- Gates
Wood extractives (including oil)
Wood gas (and other hydrocarbons
Wood-based materials
- Particleboard