生長緩慢，樹幹蒼勁，葉片終年深綠，甚具觀賞價值。本港東岸原有大片野生，因成為迷信商品，價高而被大量偷掘，成為高度瀕危植物。新亞種植一列羅漢松，春天開花，結小果，圓果下有托，像人型，因名羅漢松。

This plant grows at a slow speed.  On the sturdy stem are strong and horizontal branches.  Evergreen with alternate, spirally arranged leaves, acute at both ends, the Buddhist pine has high ornamental values.  They used to exist in abundance at the east coast of the territory.  Yet superstition turned them into vastly profitable commercial goods.  With increasing illegally logging, they are now endangered species.  Also a dioecious plant, among the row of Buddhist Pines grown in New Asia College, some flowers in spring bear small globose fruits with a purplish fleshy receptacle.  The plant’s form of a human figure gives it the common name of 'Buddhist Pine'.