General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Tree
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Water Preferences: Mesic
Soil pH Preferences: Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 4a -34.4 °C (-30 °F) to -31.7 °C (-25 °F)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 7b
Plant Height: 40 to 80 feet
Plant Spread: 25 to 40 feet
Leaves: Good fall color
Deciduous
Needled
Pollinators: Wind
Miscellaneous: Monoecious
Conservation status: Least Concern (LC)

Conservation status:
Conservation status: Least Concern
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Common names
  • Japanese Larch
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Larix kaempferi
  • Synonym: Larix leptolepis

Photo Gallery
Location: Elkheart garden zone 5 Indiana
Date: 2020-06-19
Location: Elkheart garden zone 5 Indiana
Date: 2020-06-19
Location: Tyler Arboretum in southeast PA near Media
Date: 2010-10-28
autumn color
Location: Tyler Arboretum in southeast PA near Media
Date: 2010-01-09
grove of trees in winter
Location: Elkheart garden zone 5 Indiana
Date: 2020-06-19
Location: Tyler Arboretum in southeast PA near Media
Date: 2010-01-09
lower trunk showing mature bark
Location: Tyler Arboretum in southeast PA
Date: 2010-01-09
twigs and cones in winter
Location: Tyler Arboretum in southeast PA near Media
Date: 2010-06-23
full-grown tree in summer
Location: Tyler Arboretum in southeast PA near Media
Date: 2010-06-23
summer foliage
Location: Tyler Arboretum in southeast PA
Date: 2010-01-09
cones closer shot
Location: Arnold Arboretum, Harvard
Date: 2019-06-25
photo by Eliane Escher, used courtesy of Arnold Arboretum's Plant
Location: RHS Wisley, UK.
Bonsai
Location: RHS Wisley, Surrey, UK.
Date: 2022-08-04
Location: RHS Wisley, UK.
Location: RHS Wisley, UK.
Bonsai

photo by Derek Ramsey.
Comments:
  • Posted by ILPARW (southeast Pennsylvania - Zone 6b) on Nov 22, 2017 9:10 PM concerning plant:
    Japanese Larch is a beautiful conifer tree. Its foliage is bluish-green, with needles about 1 to 1.5 inches long and a little wider than the European's, and whorled on spurs with 40 or more needles on each spur. The 1 to 1.5 inch long cones have reflexed edges; that is, the scale edges roll back. The bark is supposed to be more interesting than the European's. A few large, diverse nurseries offer this species. I've only seen it twice, once in Illinois and once in Pennsylvania.

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