Cultivars
'Alice Verkade'
This very slow growing plant forms a dwarf-rounded habit with bright green leaves. Its growth rate is normally 70mm (3in) per year.

'Globosa'
This slow growing dwarf shrub grows to 5m (15ft) in 50 years forming a compact spreading rounded habit. It is planted in small gardens on the coast and inland as a specimen.

'Tanyosho Nana'
This small tree has an upright broad conical habit and is slow growing.

'Umbraculifera'
This very slow growing shrub to small tree has a solitary or multiple reddish-brown trunks with spreading branches that form a rounded crown, some what umbrella-like.

'Oculus Draconis'
This plant produces yellow-banded needles and is commonly known as the Dragon Eye Pine.

'Pendula'
This plant has a semi-prostrate habit and is commonly planted Japanese gardens around a water feature.