[2][3] The variety is named after Olga Bay in the Sea of Japan.

The common name in Japanese language is 満洲唐松 (Manshu'u Kara-matsu).

The common name in Chinese is 黄花落叶松 (pinyin: huang hua luo ye song).

[4] This variety occurs in Central Sikhote-Alin, and rarely occurs in North Korea, and Jilin and eastern Heilongjiang provinces of China, between 500 and 1100 metres in elevation.

[5][4] This deciduous coniferous tree grows to 25–30 meters tall with a trunk reaching a meter in diameter at breast high, with gray to gray-brown bark with flaking and scaly fissured bark.