Japanese black true pine is an irregularly work pine tree that can grow to 25 foot tall and spread between 25 and 35 feet . However , Nipponese black pine tree is also a popular bonsai tree diagram . By pruning the roots and judicious tree pruning , the Japanese grim pine can be limited to a foot or two tall . However , both outside and bonsai trees can be susceptible to disease and to insect problems that can appear to be a disease .

History

Nipponese grim pine is an introduced tree in North America . Although aboriginal to Japan , it also grow as a native tree in parts of China , include Taiwan . A number of diseases have been account since the early 20th C . However , some of the reason were not identify for over 70 years . The mien of some pine infection common to Japanese black pine have resulted in significance Bachelor of Arts in Nursing in countries where these diseases are not yet get laid .

Types of Disease

Nipponese pines can be susceptible to pine wilt disease . This disease was first identified in Japan around 1905 , according to the U.S. Forest Service . However , the cause , the pinewood nematode , was n’t place until 1971 . Pine wilt is fateful within 30 to 90 days of infestation . Japanese pitch-dark pine can also be susceptible to tip blight disease . However , insects like sawfly and the Nantucket bakshish moth can have symptoms virtually monovular to tip blight disease .

Treatments

How the disease or job is do by will calculate on the cause . Pine wood nematodes are always fatal . There is no intervention . In fact , so as to preclude cattle ranch to nearby trees , you will need to get rid of and destroy the affected Tree . acerate leaf blight and insect problems similar to needle blight are n’t by and large fatal to the tree diagram . Treatment with fungicide and insecticides can sometimes be efficient .

Identification

Pinewood nematodes cause a general wilt of needles . After the wilting , the acerate leaf will turn yellow and then brownish . finally , the tree will fail . nematode circularise from tree diagram to Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree via an insect called a pine sawyer . Needle blight starts with two- or three - year - former needles dying back from the bakshish . If the needles have narrow dark body on the back , it is likely blight . If not , the needles could be pass away because of insect .

Prevention

The best agency to avoid problems with your Japanese black pine Tree is to ensure proper growing conditions . Trees that are stressed , either by want of sun or water , can be more susceptible to disease than healthy trees . Japanese black pines do well in full sun . Although more often than not consider a drouth - resistive tree diagram , giving your tree an in or two of water per week will help to reduce the endangerment of stresses from deficiency of water .

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