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Pinus koraiensis

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It is native to eastern Asia: Manchuria (Ussuri River basin) in northeast China, Primorsky Krai and Khabarovsk Krai in the far east of Russia, Korea and Japan -Honshu southward from Tochigi Prefecture and northward from Gifu Prefecture, and Shikoku.

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Lim, T.K. (2012). Pinus koraiensis. In: Edible Medicinal And Non-Medicinal Plants. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4053-2_38

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