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The tree species Pinus koraiensis is is commonly called Korean Pine. It is native to eastern Asia
Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area and, with over 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population....
, Manchuria
Manchuria

Manchuria is a historical name given to a vast geographic region in northeast Asia. Depending on the definition of its extent, Manchuria either falls entirely within People's Republic of China, or is divided between China and Russia....
, far eastern Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
, Korea
Korea

Korea is a geographic area composed of two sovereign countries, a civilization, and a former state situated on the Korean Peninsula in East Asia....
 and central Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
. In the north of its range, it grows at moderate altitudes, typically 600-900 m, whereas further south, it is a mountain
Mountain

A mountain is a landform that stretches above the surrounding land in a limited area usually in the form of a peak. A mountain is generally steeper than a hill....
 tree, growing at 2,000-2,600 m altitude in Japan. It is a large tree, reaching a mature size of 40-50 m height, and 1.5-2 m trunk diameter.

It is a member of the white pine
Pinus classification

There are three main subgenera of Pine, the subgenus Strobus , the subgenus Ducampopinus , and the subgenus Pinus . This classification into the three subgenera is based on cone, seed and leaf characters:...
 group, Pinus subgenus Strobus
Pinus classification

There are three main subgenera of Pine, the subgenus Strobus , the subgenus Ducampopinus , and the subgenus Pinus . This classification into the three subgenera is based on cone, seed and leaf characters:...
, and like all members of that group, the leaves ('needles') are in fascicles (bundles) of five, with a deciduous sheath.






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The tree species Pinus koraiensis is is commonly called Korean Pine. It is native to eastern Asia
Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area and, with over 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population....
, Manchuria
Manchuria

Manchuria is a historical name given to a vast geographic region in northeast Asia. Depending on the definition of its extent, Manchuria either falls entirely within People's Republic of China, or is divided between China and Russia....
, far eastern Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
, Korea
Korea

Korea is a geographic area composed of two sovereign countries, a civilization, and a former state situated on the Korean Peninsula in East Asia....
 and central Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
. In the north of its range, it grows at moderate altitudes, typically 600-900 m, whereas further south, it is a mountain
Mountain

A mountain is a landform that stretches above the surrounding land in a limited area usually in the form of a peak. A mountain is generally steeper than a hill....
 tree, growing at 2,000-2,600 m altitude in Japan. It is a large tree, reaching a mature size of 40-50 m height, and 1.5-2 m trunk diameter.

It is a member of the white pine
Pinus classification

There are three main subgenera of Pine, the subgenus Strobus , the subgenus Ducampopinus , and the subgenus Pinus . This classification into the three subgenera is based on cone, seed and leaf characters:...
 group, Pinus subgenus Strobus
Pinus classification

There are three main subgenera of Pine, the subgenus Strobus , the subgenus Ducampopinus , and the subgenus Pinus . This classification into the three subgenera is based on cone, seed and leaf characters:...
, and like all members of that group, the leaves ('needles') are in fascicles (bundles) of five, with a deciduous sheath. They are 7-13 cm long. Korean Pine cones
Conifer cone

A cone is an organ on plants in the division Pinophyta that contains the plant sexuality structures. The familiar woody cone is the female cone, which produces seeds....
 are 8-17 cm long, green or purple before maturity, ripening brown about 18 months after pollination. The 14-18 mm long seed
Seed

A seed is a small Plant embryogenesis plant enclosed in a covering called the seed coat, usually with some Food storage. It is the product of the ripened ovule of gymnosperm and angiosperm plants which occurs after fertilization and some growth within the mother plant....
s have only a vestigial wing and are dispersed by Spotted Nutcracker
Spotted Nutcracker

The Spotted Nutcracker, Eurasian Nutcracker, or just Nutcracker, is a passerine bird slightly larger than the Eurasian Jay. It has a much larger bill and a slimmer looking head without any crest....
s.

Koreanpineseeds
Korean Pine differs from the closely related Siberian Pine
Siberian Pine

The Siberian Pine is a species of pine tree that occurs in Siberia from 58?E in the Ural Mountains east to 126?E in the Stanovoy Range in southern Sakha Republic, and from Igarka at 68?N in the lower Yenisei River valley, south to 45?N in central Mongolia....
 in having larger cones with reflexed scale tips, and longer needles.

The seeds are extensively harvested and sold as pine nut
Pine nut

Pine nuts are the edible seeds of pines . About 20 species of pine produce seeds large enough to be worth harvesting; in other pines the seeds are also edible, but are too small to be of value as a human food....
s, particularly in northeastern China; it is the most widely traded pine nut in international commerce.

Korean Pine is a popular ornamental tree in park
Park

A park is a Environmental protection, in its natural or semi-natural state or planted, and set aside for human recreation and enjoyment....
s and large garden
Garden

A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the display, cultivation, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature. The garden can incorporate both natural and man-made materials....
s where the climate
Climate

Climate encompasses the temperatures, humidity, atmospheric pressure, winds, rainfall, atmospheric particle count and numerous other Meteorology elements in a given region over long periods of time, as opposed to the term weather, which refers to current activity of these same elements....
 is cold, such as eastern Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 and the northeastern states of the USA, giving steady though not fast growth on a wide range of sites. It is tolerant of severe winter cold, hardy down to at about -50°C.

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