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Plant Habit: Tree
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Soil pH Preferences: Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 7a -17.8 °C (0 °F) to -15 °C (5 °F)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 9b
Plant Height: 30 to 75 feet or more
Leaves: Evergreen
Needled
Fruiting Time: Fall
Flowers: Inconspicuous
Flower Color: Other: Male flowers are cylindrical, yellowish-brown color and appear in clusters while female flowers are globose and yellowish-green in color.
Bloom Size: Under 1"
Flower Time: Spring
Underground structures: Taproot
Suitable Locations: Street Tree
Uses: Useful for timber production
Resistances: Humidity tolerant
Pollinators: Wind
Miscellaneous: Monoecious
Conservation status: Least Concern (LC)

Conservation status:
Conservation status: Least Concern
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Common names
  • China Fir
  • Cunninghamia
  • China-fir
  • Chinese Fir
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Cunninghamia lanceolata
  • Synonym: Cunninghamia sinensis
  • Synonym: Cunninghamia unicanaliculata

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Location: Aberdeen, NC
Date: February 14, 2022
Chinese Fir #22 nn, LHB page 119, 17-5-1. Named for James Cunning
Location: Aberdeen, NC
Date: February 14, 2022
Chinese Fir #22 nn; LHB page 119, 17-5-1, "Named for James Cunnin
Location: Aberdeen, NC
Date: February 14, 2022
Chinese Fir #22 nn; LHB page 119, 17-5-1, "Named for James Cunnin
Location: Deep Cut Gardens Middletown, New Jersey
Date: April 2007
Location: Deep Cut Gardens Middletown, New Jersey
Date: April 2007
Location: My garden in N E Pa. 
Date: 2021-04-18
Location: St Louis
Date: 2013-09-07
Location: Deep Cut Gardens Middletown, New Jersey
Date: April 2007
Mature tree
Location: Deep Cut Gardens Middletown, New Jersey
Date: April 2007
Pollen cones
Location: Deep Cut Gardens Middletown, New Jersey
Date: April 2007
Location: Deep Cut Gardens Middletown, New Jersey
Date: April 2007
Long view of tree
Location: Deep Cut Gardens Middletown, New Jersey
Date: April 2007
Needle pattern
Location: Aberdeen, NC
Date: February 13, 2022
Chinese Fir #22 nn; LHB page 119, 17-5-1, "Named for James Cunnin
Location: My garden in N E Pa.
Location: Aberdeen, NC
Date: February 14, 2022
Chinese Fir #22 nn; LHB page 119, 17-5-1, "Named for James Cunnin
Location: Deep Cut Gardens Middletown, New Jersey
Date: April 2007
Location: Aberdeen, NC
Date: February 14, 2022
Chinese Fir #22 nn; LHB page 119, 17-5-1, "Named for James Cunnin
Location: St Louis
Date: 2013-09-07
Location: St Louis
Date: 2009-05-16
Location: My garden in N E Pa. 
Date: 2014-05-30
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2017-04-23
Location: Czech Republic, greenhouse Fata Morgana - BZ Praha 7 - Troja
Photo courtesy of: Ivo Antusek
Location: Wayneboro MS
Date: 2007-01-06
Location: Wayneboro MS
Date: 2007-12-17
Location: Kunming Botanical Garden, Kunming, Yunnan, China.
Date: August
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