
Japanese Red Pine
- Botanical Name
- Pinus densiflora
- Min Zone
- 3
- Max Zone
- 7
- Height
- 40 to 60 feet, up to 100 feet
- Width
- 40 to 60 feet
- Flowers
- Monoecious
- Fruit
- Cone: short stalked, 1.5 to 2 inches, remain 2 to 3 years on tree
- Light
- Full sun
- Soil
- Well-drained, slightly acidic
- Planting & Care
- Use as specimen where form and orange-red bark can be appreciated
- Not salt tolerant
- Relatively slow growing
- Problems
- Cankers, needle blights, scale, webworm, spittlebug, shoot borer
- Varieties
- Oculus Draconis - needles are banded with yellow in the center, dense round form
- Umbriculifera (Tanyosho Pine) - dwarf, with flat-topped form and yellow-green foliage, good for Japanese gardens
- Globosa - dwarf with rounded form, 15 feet in 50 years, short deep green needles, semi-prostrate trunk
- Tiny Temple - slower growing 4 inches per year, needles are thin and 2.5 inches long and are dark green outside and gray-blue inside, wide pyramidal habit
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