''Pinus pseudostrobus'', known in English as the smooth-bark Mexican pine and in Spanish as ''chamite'' or ''pacingo'', is a tree found in forests of

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and

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. It is 8 to 25 m tall with a dense and round top.It is threatened by logging and wood harvesting. The bark is brown and fissured and smooth when young. It is subject to ''ex situ'' conservation. It grows at altitudes between 850 and 3250 m. from 26° to 15° north latitude, from

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, Mexico to

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and

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. It occurs within a rainfall regime that rains mostly in summer. In some forested areas like southern

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''Pinus pseudostrobus'' is the tree with largest volume per hectare. English botanist

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described the species in 1839. It is divided into ''Pinus pseudostrobus'' var.''apulcensis'' ( Lindl.)Shaw (Apulco pine), ''Pinus pseudostrobus'' f.''protuberans'' Martínez and ''Pinus pseudostrobus'' var.''pseudostrobus''. It has been introduced in

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near sea level and has done well. File:Pinus pseudostrobus, male cones (11332867843).jpg, Male cones at

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File:Pinus pseudostrobus Cerro Pelon.jpg, ''Pinus pseudostrobus'', Cerro Pelón, Mexico

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