This tree is just inside the entrance to the Stanley Park Pitch and Putt golf course. I really liked the young cones, so became interested, but I have no idea if these cones are unique to this one type of larch. I have a list that shows Larix x eurolepsis in this area. Is this it? The bark doesn't look all that reddish-brown to me, and I don't understand the difference between scaly and "fissured and scaly" to distinguish it from European Larch. Larix decidua 'Pendula' is also on the list in that area. I would describe this as unruly rather than pendulous. Here's the tree in late March.
Re: What larch? Dunkfield? It does look to have intermediate characters. Name is Dunkeld, not Dunkfield. Dunkfield sounds like slang for a coffee shop seating area.
Re: What larch? Dunkfield? Oh, thank you. I've corrected that. My eyes are too old for these books. Or maybe too tired, and I was thinking about the coffee.
Agree with Dunkeld Larch, though probably a second generation back-cross [European × Japanese] × European, as it appears closer to European than 'mid-way' (particularly in shoot colour). Scientific name is Larix × marschlinsii (Coaz 1917; the name L. × eurolepis was published 2 years later, in 1919).
