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The Japanese black pine (Pinus thunbergii) belongs to Pinaceae (the Pine family). It is a tall evergreen tree that is disrtibuted from Honshu to Shikoku, Kyushu in Janan and the southern Korean Peninsula. This tree grows in coastal areas and can reach 15-35 m in height. The barks are grayish black and hexagonal fissured when mature. The leaves are dark green and two per bundle on the short twigs. It is a dioecism, peach bloom female flowers and yellowish brown male flowers come in April. The strobiles ripen in the next year's fall.