WorldFloraDB - Athrotaxis selaginoides

Characteristics

Tree to 15 (-40) m tall. Branchlets spreading, often ±distichous. Adult leaves loosely imbricate, spreading and ±incurved, oblong-lanceolate, 6-12 mm long, 1.5-2.5 mm wide, thick, acute or acuminate, slightly keeled. Male cones ovoid, c. 3 mm long and wide. Female cones globular, 1.5-2 cm diam.; fertile bract scales thick, broadly lanceolate, tapering to base.

Life form	perennial
Growth form	tree
Growth support	free-standing
Foliage retention	evergreen
Sexuality	monoecy
Pollination	anemogamy
Spread	-
Mature width (meter)	6.0
Mature height (meter)	30.0
Root system	-
Rooting depth (meter)	-
Root diameter (meter)	-
Flower color	-
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Fruit color	-
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Nitrogen fixer	-
Photosynthetic pathway	c3

Environment

Locally frequent in wet, somewhat sheltered forest areas of the central plateau and mountains of the west and south-west, at altitudes of 800-1200 m.

More

Wet, talus or peat soils from transitional forests at elevations above Eucalyptus woodland, up to the alpine; at elevations from 400-1,120 metres.

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Hardiness (USDA)

Usage

Uses	material tea timber wood
Edible	-
Therapeutic use	-
Human toxicity	-
Animal toxicity	-

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.

Mode	cuttings seedlings
Germination duration (days)	-
Germination temperacture (C°)	-
Germination luminosity	-
Germination treatment	-
Minimum temperature (C°)	-
Optimum temperature (C°)	15 - 22
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