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Japanese Red Pine

Red Pine is very popular pine in Japan. This pine usually grows in mountain area and we harvest “Matsutake (a kind of mushroom)” which grows only from the living root of this pine in fall season. (Matsutake is the most expensive mushroom in Japan.)

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Leaves of Japanese Red Pine

This picture is leaves of Japanese Red Pine. We call this pine as “Aka-Matsu (赤松)”. 赤 means red and 松 means pine.

Most Japanese pines have the leaves that two stick of leaves create one pair, not like most of the American pines which 3 or 4 leaves form a group.

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