Pinus densiflora

Common Name: Japanese Red Pine

Family: Pinaceae

Country of Origin: S. Russian Far East to Korea and C. & S. Japan

Description: A straight to contorted (particularly in coastal settings) tree up to 36m tall, with an open, irregular or umbrella-shaped crown. Lower branches shed early even in open settings. Bark red-brown, in large plates (on old trees) or flaky and papery. Branches grey-green, rapidly becoming smooth with age, developing papery reddish bark. Leaves green, pliable, 2 per fascicle, sheaths retained, 8-12 cm long, 0.7-1.2 mm wide, acute, with minute marginal teeth, stomata in lines on all surfaces; retained in bunches at ends of twigs. Pollen cones small, ellipsoidal, pale yellow or yellow-brown, at end of shoots. Seed cones conic-ovoid, tan to golden brown, 4-7 cm long, in whorls of 2-5 at branch nodes, remaining closed and attached for several years, on a 1-3 mm long somewhat flexible peduncle. Cone scales: about 50 scales may contain fertile seed; cuneate, the exposed part flattened, rhomboidal with a central, short-mucronate umbo; the concealed part a dark red-brown. Seeds with attached wing 10-17 mm long.⁵

USDA Zone: 7

Accession #: 201800129

Accession Date: 2019-10-25 00:00:00

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 2301

Quantity: 1

Source: John Korte (seed from treeseeds.com)

Division: Pinophyta

Class: Pinopsida

Subclass: Pinidae

Order: Pinales

Family: Pinaceae

SubFamily: Pinoideae