This stand of Umbrella pines in the Bronx Botanical garden was planted in 1908. It is called Tanyosho pine in Japanese.

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I've seen several specimens of this cultivar of the Japanese Red Pine, (a species that is similar to the Scots Pine of Europe and Siberia), : two old, large ones at arboretums over 60 years old, one maturing tree of maybe 30 to 40 years old in a yard, two smaller specimens about 8 to 10 feet high in well-to-do neighbourhoods, and I saw 2 or 3 plants sold from nurseries where I worked about 4 or 5 feet high. Like the mother species, the Tanyosho Pine has stiff needles about 3 to 5 inches long in bundles of 2. It often bears lots of oval cones about 1.5 to 2 inches long. I've never seen it self-sow, but any seedlings would not be like the cultivar. The foliage can become yellowish in winter. The Tanyosho cultivar is a compact form that slowly grows, about 6 to 8 inches/year, to 15 to 30 feet high. Its branches divide low near the trunk base and it forms a wide, umbrella-like crown. Its bark is orange and flaky over much of the branches and trunk. It is an expensive plant that some diverse or specialty nurseries sell. Being a Japanese Red Pine, there is a chance of the Pinewood Nematode spread by Sawyer Pine Bark Beetles finding and killing it; but being an infrequent plant in the east half side of the US, it mostly likely won't be found.

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