
Japanese White Pine
- Botanical Name
- Pinus parviflora
- Min Zone
- 4
- Max Zone
- 7
- Height
- 25 to 50 feet
- Width
- 25 to 50 feet
- Flowers
- May: monoecious, small, yellow-green in clusters
- Fruit
- Cone: 1.5 to 4 inches, remain 6 to 7 years on tree, thick brownish-red
- Light
- Full sun
- Soil
- Well-drained, adaptable
- Planting & Care
- Somewhat tolerant of salt spray
- Relatively tolerant of most soils as long as they are well-drained
- Slow growing
- Problems
- Cankers, needle blights, scale, webworm, spittlebug, shoot borer
- Varieties
- Adcock's Dwarf - bonsai-esque, 3 feet upright globe form
- Glauca - blue foliage, common, long twisted needles
- Ogon Janome - variegated cultivar with bands of yellow on the needles
- Bergman - upright, compact form, twisted blue-green needles, shurb or small tree, 15 to 20 feet tall
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