Pinus kesiya Royle ex Gordon

Trees to 30 m tall; trunk to 60 cm d.b.h.; bark brown, irregularly flaking; crown broadly domed; branchlets yellowish brown, shiny, aging to orange-brown, initially covered with scale bases (which are shed in 2nd or 3rd year), producing 2 or more nodes each year; winter buds red-brown, conical, slightly resinous. Needles 3 per bundle, slender, triangular in cross section, 10-22 cm × 0.7-1 mm, pliant, resin canals 3-6, marginal, base with persistent sheath 1-2 cm. Seed cones usually solitary or paired, ovoid, 5-6 × ca. 3.5 cm, persistent for many years. Seed scales narrowly suboblong, 2.5-3 × 1-1.5 cm; apophyses ± pyramidal, obviously transversely ridged; umbo small, ellipsoid, slightly protruded into a tiny recurved spine. Seeds black-brown, slightly appressed, ellipsoid, 5-6 × 3-4 mm.

Most often in open pure stands following fire, but also mixed with oaks and Ericaceous species at intermediate elevations from 300 to 2700 m, often on steep slopes. Generally in the same area as P. merkusii, but usually at higher elevations. A few specimens in the Philippines have been considered hybrids between these two species, but actual hybridization has not been verified.

An extract from the resin has a vanilla flavouring.

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.