The blue-green needles are 1- to 2-inches long and are slightly twisted to reveal the silver-blue underside. This pine produces 2-inch-long dark-brown cones with white tips.

What: The name Pinus parviflora Glauca Group represents blue-needled selections of the lovely Japanese white pine.Each of their blue needles has a white stripe. These slow-growing evergreen trees ...

Japanese black pine (Pinus thunbergii) is an incredibly striking, hardy tree with iconic long needles and asymmetrical form, ...

The Japanese black pine is resistant to air pollution, high winds and salt spray. Dwarf cultivars are used as classic bonsai subjects. Many cultivars are grown, including some with yellow striped ...

But it was only when he learned the full history of the tree, a Japanese white pine donated in 1976, that he was truly stunned. The tree, a part of the Arboretum’s National Bonsai and Penjing ...

Japanese white pine. Hunter’s white pine is one of four of his largest bonsai in a collection of about 125. He picked this one for the Bergen Bonsai Society’s display (signing up early to get ...

The Japanese white pine that survived the atomic bomb was given to the U.S. as a 200th birthday present. Here, it’s surrounded by morning glories in 2013.

At 390 years old, the Japanese white pine was already notable as the oldest specimen in the bonsai collection at Washington, D.C.'s National Arboretum.

The arrangement above is titled “Shiki 1,” a Japanese white pine bonsai suspended from a metal frame. The untitled one below is made from an arrangement of orchids.

The 390-year old Japanese White Pine. (USDA, U.S. National Arboretum) The history of a 390-year old bonsai tree at the National Arboretum that survived the Hiroshima atomic blast is being honored ...