Red pine (Aka-matsu)

Red pine (Aka-matsu) is another pine trees can be seen in the same way as Black pine (Kuro-matsu) in the Japanese garden.

It is native to mountains of Japan, referred to as a woman pine (Onna matsu),

because of its soft appearance compared to the Japanese black pine.

It is called Akamatsu which means red pine in the Japanese from the fact that in comparison with the Japanese black pine with a stem of  red brown.

Sprouts of Akamatsu　are in red brown, a leaf is soft compared to the Japanese black pine.

You can discern easily,if you touch their leaves.

Japanese red pine is susceptible to change of environment and air pollution, in the garden of  the urban areas,but no longer used much,has been useful there is also unusual varieties,such as the image below.

Shidare akamatsu has weeping branches

Tagyou-syou has a lot of stems