Propagation
Sow fresh seeds during spring and maintain a warm humid environment.

Semi-hardwood cuttings with a heel taken during summer and placed on a misting bench.

Note:
This plant is not commonly cultivated and may be difficult to obtain requiring a specialist nursery.


Botanic information
Leaf: The juvenile leaves are glaucous and the adult scale leaves are ovate to triangular. They are arranged in whorls of three along the branchlets and are loosely imbricate.

Flower: The tree is monoecious with the tiny male strobili is up to 6 mm (Ľ in) long and has 16-18 rounded scales appear towards the end of the branchlets and the globular conical female cone is up to 20mm (ľ in) long and wide. When young, cones are glaucous maturing to red- brown and they appear during spring.

Fruit: The female cones has six acute seed bearing scales that spread when ripe and normally releasing 2-3 tan coloured or yellowish-brown winged seeds that are up to 11 mm (? in) long. The base of the cone has numerous sterile scales forming a collar. Old cones are persistent on the plant and the seeds are viable but the plant may be reproduced vegetatively.