Pinus wallichiana is a coniferous evergreen tree native to the Himalaya, Karakoram and Hindu Kush mountains, from eastern Afghanistan east across northern Pakistan and north west India to Yunnan in southwest China.

It grows in mountain valleys at altitudes of 1800–4300 m (rarely as low as 1200 m), reaching 30–50 m (98–164 ft) in height.

[citation needed] P. wallichiana is the primary host for Himalayan dwarf mistletoe.

The tree became available through the European nursery trade in 1836, nine years after the Danish botanist Nathaniel Wallich first introduced seeds to England.

This plant[5] and its slow-growing cultivar 'Nana'[6] have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.