southwestern white pine: medium-size pine of northwestern Mexico; bark is dark brown and furrowed when mature
white pine: any of several five-needled pines with white wood and smooth usually light grey bark when young; especially the eastern white pine
kuomintang: the political party founded in 1911 by Sun Yat-sen; it governed China under Chiang Kai-shek from 1928 until 1949 when the Communists took power and subsequently was the official ruling party of Taiwan