46. Japanese Red Pine

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By the shallow stairs at Balmer Hall's corner is a Japanese Red Pine, with a groundcover of ivy and juniper. The trunk's red color gives away its identity. The needles are slender, soft, yellow-green and borne in light quantity, along with cones that suggest those of Scots pine. To the Japanese, it is feminine, while the Japanese black pine is masculine. As this specimen shows, it often is multitrunked and broad, not a robust upright grower like many pines. Thus it is well suited for use in garden design. Aka matsu is its Japanese name. It was first exported from Japan in 1854.

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