Talk:Pinus thunbergii

Edited for categories
I just edited the way this shows up in the category "Pinus." It had been set up to alphabetize there under the common name, "Japanese Black Pine." But this didn't make sense since it showed on the list with the binomial (scientific) name. So I changed it to realphabetize it that way. But I added the Redirect page to the Category. So now, the common name does show. 140.147.236.194 (talk) 15:51, 9 April 2010 (UTC)Stephen Kosciesza

Errors?
Besides the terrible grammar and sentence construction of this piece, which needs correcting, is the section labelled 'ecology' correct? It doesn't actually talk about the ecology of this species at all, and it seems that the writer confused two diseases. P. thunbergii is certainly highly susceptible to nematode attack, but blue stain fungus is spread by a different beetle (Pine Mountain beetle vs. Pine Sawyer) and doesn't seem to be particularly serious on black pine, so if there is a link it is not explained here. The effect here seems overstated - this is an ornamental tree in North America, not a forest tree. It is one thing to describe a problem affecting large areas of forest in the West, and another to sound so alarmist over a tree that is usually grown as a bonsai in N. America, or a garden/arboretum specimen. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A01:CB1D:2E:3500:8C03:C1D8:18A9:3FC3 (talk) 09:38, 15 March 2018 (UTC)