michaelj
Chumono
You ought to go out West through the Sierra Mountians and look at the Western White Pines and Sugar Pines if you can find any. These trees produce green helmets.
I've been there a great many times. Perhaps there are a few, but the green helmet look is not common for those trees in nature.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Sug...nN7TAhUp4IMKHbmHBAEQ_AUIBigB&biw=1920&bih=921
https://www.google.com/search?q=Wes...iw=1920&bih=921#tbm=isch&q=Western+White+Pine
Even in the junipers, the natural look is not the helmet, but a long flowing carpet with a bulge at the trunk.
There are all sorts of forms to Japanese black pine in nature.
That is a tree that has been shaped by people as much as it has been by nature.