Pinus koraiensis

• BOTANICAL NAME: Pinus koraiensis
• PRONUNCIATION: PI-nus core-e-EN-sis
• COMMON NAME: Korean Pine
• FAMILY: Pinaceae
• NATIVITY: Korea, also Amur region of China and Japan.
• GROWTH HABIT: Pyramidal in youth, oval to rounded in maturity.
• SIZE: 40 - 50' in cultivation, can reach 90' in the wild.
• HARDINESS: Zones 4 - 7.
• CULTURE: Adaptable, but prefers moist, well-drained soils.
• LANDSCAPE USE: Large specimen tree, with elegant appearance in the landscape.
• FOLIAGE: Needles in fascicles of five, 3 1/2 - 4 1/2" long. Needles loosely arranged and somewhat stiff. A distinct bluish cast on the needles.
• BUDS: 1/2 - 3/4" long, resinous. Scales long and thin with the terminal ones outspread.
• BARK: Gray-brown in color.
• FRUIT: Cone 3 1/2 to 6" long and 2" wide.
• PROPAGATION: Seed, cultivars grafted.
• PESTS: None serious.
• CULTIVARS:
  • `Glauca' - with more blue foliage than the species.