Object Details
- Description
- This cultivar is seen to be particularly fine. It has a narrow, conical form, and bright green foliage which does not bronze in the winter. It was developed by Dr. Sidney Waxman of the University of Connecticut.
- Hardiness
- -20 - -10 F
- Provenance
- From a cultivated plant not of known wild origin
- Accession Number
- 2019-0136A
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Life Form
- Evergreen tree
- Average Height
- 25-30 feet
- Bark Characteristics
- Red-brown bark exfoliates in strips or shreds
- Cone Characteristics
- Oval, erect seed cones are 2-4" long with thick, chunky-looking scales. Cones start green in their first year, and mature to brown in the second. They are fragile after the seeds are dispersed.
- Foliage Characteristics
- There is some debate about the leaves of this tree, but they are generally considered to be of two types. Scale leaves are brown, 1-3mm long, and widely spaced between the nodes on long shoots. The second type are highly modified shoots which are arranged in whorls of 10-30, 6-13cm long, green and fleshy, and have a midline groove on both sides. These leaves last 3-4 years. As the name of this cultivar implies, the leaves of this tree remain a rich green through the winter.
- Structure
- Conical to pyramidal which opens with age
- Range
- cultivated
- Habitat
- Mixed cloud forests; 500-1000m
- See more items in
- Smithsonian Gardens Tree Collection
- On Display
- National Museum of American History
- Common Name
- Wintergreen Japanese Umbrella Pine
- Group
- [vascular plants]
- Class
- Equisetopsida
- Subclass
- Pinidae
- Order
- Cupressales
- Family
- Sciadopityaceae
- Genus
- Sciadopitys
- Species
- verticillata
- Smithsonian Gardens
- Topic
- Trees
- Living Collections
- Record ID
- ofeo-sg_2019-0136A
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ax7109cd5a5-2cea-4607-aa8b-1b63aa0fe596
