Larches are deciduous conifers in the genus Larix, of the family Pinaceae. Larix decidua, the European larch, is a species of larch native to the mountains of central Europe, in the Alps and Carpathian Mountains as well as the Pyrenees, with disjunct lowland populations in northern Poland and southern Lithuania. It is widely naturalized in Scandinavia. Although they are conifers, larches are deciduous trees that lose their needles in the autumn. The leaves are needle-like, light green, 2–4 cm long which turn bright yellow before they fall in the autumn, leaving the pale yellow-buff shoots bare until the next spring. The Dolomites are a mountain range located in northeastern Italy.