This tree is shaped like a cone with spreading branches and dark brown bark. The leaves are needle-like, roughly 4-5cm long, bright green in colour and produced in whorls of 20-30. Female cones are barrel-shaped, green at first but then they ripen to brown. This tree grows to roughly 40m tall and 10m wide. This plant is not drought tolerant.
- Type
- Exotic
- Size
- Medium Trees & shrubs 3 - 7 metres
- Zones
- Moist temperate with warm summers
- Soils
- Sandy, Loam, Clay
- Tolerances
- Wind
- Regions
- Central Highlands Garden, Yarra Valley Water plants, Habitat plants
- Shade levels
- Full sun
- Flowering seasons
- None
- Colours
- Green
- Gardens
- Backyard Garden, Mediterranean Garden, Hardy Garden, Habitat plants, Mediterranean