In Popular Culture
- The larch figures significantly in the third episode of the British comedy TV series Monty Python's Flying Circus, "How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away". Also, a picture of the tree would unexpectedly appear in the middle of other sketches with the voiceover "No. 1 the larch. No. 1 the..lllarch".
- The Scottish sport of Tossing the Caber typically uses a Larch tree about 19'6" long and weighing about 175 pounds.
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