Dacrycarpus dacrydioides (A.Rich.) De Laub.

Kahika (en)

Species

Gymnosperms > Cupressales > Podocarpaceae > Dacrycarpus

Characteristics

A tree. It can grow to 45 m high. The trunk can be 1.5 m through. It can spread 6-8 m wide. It is upright with a cone shaped crown. The bark is grey and scales off in flakes. Old trees can have buttresses. The leaves are cypress like. They have a bronze colour when mature. Trees are separately male and female. The cones have black nut-like seeds. The cones swell into a fleshy berry.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality dioecy
Pollination anemogamy
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 6.0 - 8.0
Mature height (meter) 6.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) 0.6
Flower color
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

It is a warm temperate plant. They can grow in wet and swampy conditions. It will also grow in drier sites. In New Zealand it grows up to 600 m altitude. Melbourne Botanical Gardens. It suits hardiness zones 9-11. Arboretum Tasmania. Hobart Botanical Gardens.
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Lowland forest, favouring the fertile, silty, free-draining floodplains and low terraces of rivers, and the wet margins of the lowland swamps and bogs, often dominant in swamp forests; at elevations up to 600 metres.
Light 4-6
Soil humidity 4-6
Soil texture 1-6
Soil acidity 3-7
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 9-10

Usage

The fruit are eaten.
Uses dye environmental use essential oil material medicinal wood
Edible fruits gums
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

They can be grown from seed or cuttings.
Mode cuttings seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Dacrycarpus dacrydioides unspecified picture

Distribution

Dacrycarpus dacrydioides world distribution map, present in New Zealand

Conservation status

Dacrycarpus dacrydioides threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:687947-1
WFO ID wfo-0000636634
COL ID 33T93
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Nageia excelsa Podocarpus dacrydioides Nageia dacrydioides Dacrydium excelsum Dacrycarpus dacrydioides Nageia excesla Podocarpus excelsus Podocarpus thujoides Dacrydium ferrugineum