Similar to parent species, with intermediate features,  but Hybrid Larch usually has pink-orange-brownish twigs with leaves 40 to 50 mm long. It has tall, ovoid cones with patent scales that have recurved tips, and leaves with conspicuous whitish stripes on the under surface.  

Larix decidua and Larix kaempferi

Cones with slightly recurved tips; female cones ovoid, usually 1.25 to 1.5 times as long as wide.

Photo of cones and shoot, with details of size of cones; photo of whole tree

Usually found as a planted tree in parks or on roadsides etc.

Flowering in March and April.

Deciduous

Fairly widespread in Britain, with most records from the north and west.

Not well recorded in Leicestershire and Rutland. It was not recorded in the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire.