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 ...

Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Winter is a great time to take a close look at evergreens, such as the Fukuzumi Japanese white pine (Pinus parviflora ‘Fukuzumi’).

try Pinus parviflora “Blue Lou”( also known as Blue Lou Japanese white pine). Blue Lou is a very slow grower, becoming a dense, broad mound at 3 feet tall by 4 feet wide in 10 years.

The Japanese white pine, which was potted 390 years ago, belonged to a family that lived within two miles of where American forces dropped the atomic bomb 70 years ago this week. The family had ...

Thursday marks the 70th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing. The Japanese White Pine is in the Arboretum’s National Bonsai and Penjing Museum. The tree was donated in 1976 by bonsai master ...