Taxon: Pinus densiflora Siebold & Zucc.

Common names:

• Japanese pine   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• Japanese red pine   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• Japanese umbrella pine   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• tanyosho pine   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• chi song   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• pin rouge du Japon   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – French
  
• japanische Rotkiefer   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (for bonsai fide Dict Gard)
  
• Human food: beverage base   (green cones for making wine in Korea fide Econ Bot 50:63. 1996)
  
• Materials: gum/resin; wood   (fide F ChinaEng)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Primorye
  China: China - Heilongjiang [e. & s.], Jiangsu [n.e.], Jilin [s.e.], Liaoning, Shandong [e. & n.]
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku; Korea

References:

• Botanical Society of the British Isles. 2007. BSBI checklist. (BSBI)
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. (Zander ed17)
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan. (F Japan)
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)
• Webster's third new international dictionary. (Websters Dict)

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Pinus densiflora.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Pinus densiflora. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for Pinus densiflora Siebold & Zucc.:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Gymnosperm Database of Christopher J. Earle
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority for Pinus densiflora cultivars
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• Seeds: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds with wing removed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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