Melinda Myers

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