Propagation
Sow fresh seed when ripe in containers and place in a cold frame or sow in a prepared bed. Seeds may require some stratification. 

Botanic information
Leaf: The 4-sided acicular leaves are slightly flattened pointing forward and crowded along the orange-brown shoots. The apex is acute and a whitish bloom may be present. When crushed the leaves have a rank odour.

Flower: The small male strobili are dark purple appearing in the leaf axils and the terminal female cones are bright scarlet-crimson appearing upright on the branchlets during late spring.

Fruit: The ovoid to cylindrical cones have a short stalk or are sessile and have flexible thin scales that are irregularly serrated. They fall in the first season during autumn and have broad black seeds up to 3mm (⅛in) long with an oblique wing to 12mm (½in).