Japan Flora: Tree with dark gray, scaly fissured bark; young branches glabrous; leaves 2 in a fascicle, straight, rigid, dark green, subterete, sharp- pointed, 7-15 cm, long, 1,5-2 mm. wide; cones short-peduncu­late, conic-ovoid, 4-6 cm. long, the scales cuneate, the exposed part flattish, with a small depressed mucro at the center. Seaside and lowlands.

Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu; common. s. Korea.

Korea Flora: Tree to 20m, 100cm in diameter with dark gray, scaly fissured bark; young branches glabrous, winter buds silvery white, scales persistent for 2-3 years; leaves 2 in a fascicle, rigid, dark green, 9- 14cm × 1.5mm; pollen cones cylindlic, 1.5 cm long, seed cones conic-ovoid, 6mm long, scales reddish, mature seed cones 50-60 scales, 45- 60mm × 30-40mm, the scales cuneate, the exposed part flatdsh, umbo apex blunt, seeds oval, 7-8mm long, darkish, wing lancelolate and mucronate, gray-brwon, cotyledons (4)6(8), seed maturity Oct of 2nd year

2n=24
Pollination May
Seed maturity Sept
Distribution Japan Honshu to Kyushu; growing along the coast, Seaside and lowlands

Taxonomic notes: Thick branches are split at the bottom is called f. multicaulis Uyeki.