Conical trees to c. 35 m tall. Bark thin, grey, becoming fissured with age. Buds cylindrical and more or less resinous. Young shoots waxy blue. Leaves hanging in 5's, 10-15 cm long, slender, often with a slight bend at the base, blue-green, white banded on the two inner faces of each leaf; sheaths often finely split, soon deciduous, chaffy. Cones 15-30 cm long, 4-7 cm wide, narrowly cylindrical; scales flexible, thinly woody. Seeds c. 8 mm long with a 2 cm long wing.

Temperate Himalayas.

An important timber tree in the Himalayas.

Shoots waxy blue; lower branches large, horizontal; leaves widely spreading; cones long, soft; cf. P. strobus. P. peuce Griseb., Macedonian Pine, from the mountains of the Balkan Peninsula in SE Europe is an ornamental tree occasionally offered in the nursery trade; it differs from P. strobus in having shiny, green, hairless new shoots and cones with swollen scale tips, and from P. wallichiana in its shorter leaves and cones. No mature specimens are known.

SA: Penola (Yallum Park). NSW: Orange (Cook Park); Ournie (Jephcott Arboretum, 37 m tall in 1991). ACT: Duntroon (Officers Mess); Westbourne Woods. VIC: Beechworth (Queen Victoria Park, also by bridge over road to Mayday Hospital 2 trees with cones of slightly different length); Daylesford (Wombat Hill); Colac (Bot. Gds); Emerald (Railway Station); Gembrook (near Puffing Billy, row of 10 trees); Hamilton (Bot Gds); Jamieson (State School and next to telephone exchange); Kyneton (Bot. Gds); Marysville ('Kooringa'); Mt Eccles National Park (Lake Condah Mission); Glen Wills (near cemetery towards creek). TAS - Hobart (Queens Domain near swimming pool; Royal Tasmanian Bot. Gds); Launceston (Cataract Gorge; City Park).

Source: Spencer, R. (1995). Pinaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 1, Ferns, conifers & their allies. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.