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BLACK PINE AT A GLANCE

COMMON NAME: Japanese black pine

SPECIES: Pinus (py'nus, old Latin name for pine (thumbergiana (thun-ber-gee-a'na, named for C.P. thunberg)

FORM: shrubby irregular, dense, wide-spreading branhces in artistic manner. Large terminal - tip end - buds.

SIZE: 25 feet wide; 15-25 feet or more tall. Sbw to moderate growth rate.

EXPOSURE: Sun.

FOLIAGE: Dark, bright green; needles in clusters of two, 3-5 inches long, stiff, pointed and sharp. Produces long, silky white candlelike buds in early spring.

FRUIT: 2-3 inch-long brown cones.

CULTURE: Tolerates most soils. Needs little fertilizer or water. Transplants easily.

USES: Tolerates salt, helps stabilize sand dunes and seashore erosion; use in rows

Bordering driveways, property lines and especially as screening, privacy plants placed 4-6 feet apart.

Also makes nice specimen or bonsai plant, pruned and trained to grow as you like. Makes nice groupings.

PRUNING: For shaping.

PROBLEMS: Pinewood nematode, which affects the vascular system of the tree; nematode transmitted through saliva of long-horn beetle; infected trees brown up and die within two weeks of contamination, says Roger Huff, arborist for city of Virginia Beach.

ALTERNATIVE: Austrian pine; height 20-40 feet, 12-20 feet spread. Picturesque with age; easily transplanted. Needs sun, good drainage, medium moisture, medium fertility. Fairly tolerant of seashore conditions.

Sources: Landscape Plants of the Southeast.- McDonald Garden Center, Dirr's Hardy Trees and Shrubs

Nov. 1998

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