Illustrated Compendium of Materia Medica (Vol. 30)

The White Pine features a straight trunk with winding branches, shorter at the top and longer at the bottom, appearing at a distance like a futu pagoda/Buddhist stupa. Its substance is uniquely lightweight. If it is not a distinct branch of the Mugong Lord of Woods, an archaic personification of trees, then it must be that the soil causes its form and nature to vary.

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