Irregularly crowned tree to 30 m or so tall with some long, sinuous branches protruding from the crown. Bark grey-black, fissured into plates. Buds white grey with feathered scales. Young shoots orange to grey. Leaves in 2's, 7-13 cm long, stiff and pointed, slightly twisted, dark grey-green; sheaths persistent, c. 1.5 cm long, split into filaments. Cones mostly 4-7 cm long, narrowly ovate, with flat scales. Seeds c. 7 mm long, wings c. 2 cm long.
No mature trees of the species known in cultivation. Sometimes offered in the nursery trade, mostly for bonsai or as a low-growing ornamental shrubby species as at the Daimaru Shopping Centre in Melbourne. Many bonsai names are used that are not cultivars in the usual sense of being distinguishable from one-another.
Japan.
Leaf sheaths split into filaments; buds white; leaves rigid.
VIC: Ballarat (Bot. Gds, commemorative tree ptd 1988, c. 1.5 m in 1989).
Source: (1995). Pinaceae. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 1, Ferns, conifers & their allies. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.
A form in great demand for Bonsai having thick bark that forms corky wings on the trunk. The name is a Japanese short description meaning "having coarse bark" and should probably not be used as a cultivar name. Origin Japan.
This is simply a Japanese word referring in general to dwarf cultivars of this species. A clone in Europe originating c. 1976 has been renamed 'Sayonara'.
