Japanese umbrella pine (Kouyamaki) - Japanese umbrella pine

Japanese: コウヤマキ(高野槙) - コウヤマキ（英語表記）Japanese umbrella pine

Also called Honmaki. A large evergreen tree of the cedar family native to Japan and often found in temple grounds and gardens, with a beautiful, neat tree shape. It can reach a height of 30m, with short, thin branches that spread horizontally, forming a narrow, conical crown. The bark of the trunk is reddish brown and splits into long, thin strips that peel off in thick strips. Leaves grow in clusters of 10-45 at the top of new branches. Each leaf grows from the axil of a spiral scale leaf, and is morphologically the same as two narrow, linear needles 8-12cm long that grow on a short branch fused together, with a vertical groove in the center of both sides.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

ホンマキともいう。日本特産で寺院の境内や庭園にも多いスギ科の常緑大高木で，端正な樹形が美しい。高さ30mに達し，細い枝が短く水平に張るので狭い円錐形の樹冠を形成する。幹の樹皮は赤褐色で細長く裂け，厚い片となってはげる。葉は新枝の上部に10～45本ずつ群がってつく。各葉は螺生（らせい）する鱗片葉の葉腋（ようえき）から生じ，形態的には短枝の上につく長さ8～12cmの狭線形の針葉が2本横に癒合したものと同じであり，両面の中央に縦の溝がある。

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