Pinus densiflora
Japanese red pine · also Japanese pine, Korean red pine, Japanese umbrella pine
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Pinus densiflora, also known as Japanese red pine, is a fast-growing, evergreen tree native to East Asia. It often develops an umbrella-shaped canopy from multi-stemmed trunks and has distinctive peeling orange bark. In cultivation, it typically reaches about 60 feet tall.
Where it grows
Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.
- 700.03%—15 in
- 110.01%23 yr48 in
- 100.00%—6.0 in
- 30.01%—14 in
- 30.00%—7.0 in
- 30.00%—7.5 in
- 20.00%——
Traits
- Form
- Spreading
- Foliage
- Evergreen
- Mature height
- 30–50 ft
- Canopy spread
- 30–50 ft
- Growth rate
- Fast
- Water needs
- Moderate
- Wildlife value
- Moderate
Trunk diameters across every city: median 14 in, mean 18 in, 90th percentile 43 in. Measured at breast height, as published by each inventory.
Native range
Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
- Northeast China Plain deciduous forests
- Southern Korea evergreen forests
Boreal Forests/Taiga
- East Siberian taiga
Other Pinus in the catalogue
51 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.
