The national tree of Honduras was declared in 1928 to be simply "the Pine that appears symbolically in our Coat of Arms" (''el Pino que figura simbólicamente en nuestro Escudo''), even though pines comprise a genus and not a species, and even though legally there's no specification as for what kind of pine should appear in the coat of arms ''either''. Because of its commonality in the country, the ''Pinus oocarpa'' species has become since then the species most strongly associated as the national tree, but legally it is not so. Another species associated as the national tree is the ''Pinus caribaea''.