Real White Pine Needles On White Laceflower specimen encased in indestructible, transparent lucite keychain. Safe, authentic and completely unbreakable product put real specimens right at your fingertips!

Size of the lucite block is 4.5x3.1x1.5 cm (1.8x1.2x0.6 inch).

Weight of the keychain is 25 g and 35 g with packing box.

It is a beautiful keychain and is also a very good collectible item for every body.

This is a handmade real specimen craft. Each one will be a bit different (specimen size, color and posture) even in the same production batch.
The pictures in the listing are just for reference as we are selling multiple pieces with same pictures.

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Chinese Red Pine - Pinus massoniana

Order: Pinales   Family: Pinaceae   Genus: Pinus   Subgenus: Pinus   Species: P. massoniana

Pinus massoniana (English: Masson's Pine, Chinese Red Pine, Horsetail Pine) is a species of pine, native to a wide area of central and southern China, including Hong Kong and Taiwan, and northern Vietnam, growing at low to moderate altitudes, mostly below 1,500 m but rarely up to 2,000 m altitude.

It is an evergreen tree reaching 25-45 m in height, with a broad, rounded crown of long branches. The bark is thick, greyish-brown, and scaly plated at the base of the trunk, and orange-red, thin, and flaking higher on the trunk. The leaves are needle-like, dark green, with two per fascicle, 12-20 cm long and 0.8-1 mm wide, the persistent fascicle sheath 1.5-2 cm long. The cones are ovoid, 4-7 cm long, chestnut-brown, opening when mature in late winter to 4-6 cm broad. The seeds are winged, 4-6 mm long with a 10-15 mm wing. Pollination is in mid spring, with the cones maturing 18–20 months after.

The Pinewood Nematode from North America and Pine-needle Scale Insect from Taiwan, have together virtually eliminated the native Pinus massoniana in Hong Kong in the 1970s and 80s.

The species is a common trees in plantation forestry for replacing or compensating of the loss of the natural forest in southern China. Chinese rosin is obtained mainly from the turpentine of this Pine (Pinus massoniana) and Slash Pine (P. elliottii).

Logs are mainly used to make pulp for paper industry.

Leaves are used to give special smoke flavor to a local black tea, such as Lapsang souchong of Fujian province.

White Laceflower - Orlaya grandiflora

Order: Apiales   Family: Apiaceae    Genus: Orlaya

Type: Hardy Annual

Sowing: March-April (for summer flowering) and/or late August-September (for flowering the following year)

Site: Full sun

Spacing: 30cm apart

Height: 45-60cm (18-20in)

Flowers: 12 weeks from spring sowing. This is a cut-and-come-again variety.

Flower color: White
Bloom time: Summer
Light: Full sun
Zone: Annual
Soil: Average
Maintenance: Low

Orlaya grandiflora, the white laceflower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae, native to Mediterranean Europe. Growing to 7.5 cm (3.0 in), this is a multi-branched annual with divided ferny leaves, and flattish panicles of pure white flowers over a long period in summer.[1] The uneven size of the individual florets gives it the appearance of lace, especially when planted in large swathes.

It prefers a sunny, well-drained position.