Cupressaceae
Chinese fir
Cunninghamia lanceolata
- Family
- Cupressaceae
- Genus
- Cunninghamia
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Common names
By language (17)
- Chinese
- 杉叶, 杉塔, 杉子, 杉木, 杉木根, 杉木油, 杉木节, 杉材
- Danish
- Kinesisk ligkistetræ, Cunninghamia-slægten
- dsb
- Chinska rožonowa jedła, Rožonowa jedła
- English
- Chinese fir
- Finnish
- Kiinankeihäskuusi
- German
- Spießtanne, Bellis jaculifolia, Cunninghamioideae, Spießtannen
- hsb
- Chinska hlebjojta jědla, Hlebjojta jědla
- Japanese
- コウヨウザン, 杉木
- mrj
- Куннингамия
- nan
- Hok-tsiu-sam, Sam-á
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Cunninghamia
- Polish
- Stroigła chińska, Kuningamia chińska, Kuningamia lancetowata
- Russian
- Кунингамия ланцетовидная
- Slovak
- Ostrolistec čínsky
- Spanish
- Cunnighamia
- Turkish
- Çin tırpan ağacı
- Vietnamese
- Chi Sa mu
Synonyms
- Abies batavorum Siebold ex Carrière
- Abies lanceolata (Lamb.) Poir.
- Belis jaculifolia (Lamb.) Salisb.
- Belis lanceolata (Lamb.) Hoffmanns.
- Cunninghamia chinensis de Vos
- Cunninghamia jaculifolia (Salisb.) Druce
- Cunninghamia lanceolata var. corticosa Z.Y.Que & J.X.Li
- Cunninghamia lanceolata var. lanceolata
- Cunninghamia lanceolata var. unicanaliculata (D.Y.Wang & H.L.Liu) Silba
- Cunninghamia sinensis (Lamb.) Rich.
- Cunninghamia sinensis var. prolifera Lemée & H.Lév.
- Cunninghamia unicanaliculata D.Y.Wang & H.L.Liu
- Cunninghamia unicanaliculata var. pyramidalis D.Y.Wang & H.L.Liu
- Larix chinensis Mill.
- Pinus abies Lour.
- Pinus lanceolata Lamb.
- Raxopitys cunninghamii (Lamb.) J.Nelson
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Tree
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Lower 48 states: introduced
Photos
Photo: Micromesistius, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: KongFu Wang from Beijing, China, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Franz Xaver, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Franz Xaver, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Franz Xaver, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Franz Xaver, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Franz Xaver, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.