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.

Note
It is an important timber tree which is unsustainably and is harvested legally and illegally for use in construction, polls, furniture manufacturing and as pulp for paper. Other uses include tanning products produced from the bark and aromatic oil that is derived from the leaves.


Botanic information
Leaf: The flattened linear leaves are narrow at the base and slightly recurved with 2-white somatic bands on the underside. The apex is mucronate and they are arranged spirally, pointing forward on the upper side of the yellowish-brown branchlets.

Flower: The staminate (male) pollen cones are catkin-like and the green, red or purplish-brown woody pistillate (female) cones are pendulous. The monoecious flowers are pollinated by wind during late spring.

Fruit: The pendulous mature yellowish-brown cones are oblong-cylindrical up to 35 mm (1? in) wide and contain thin seed scales that are up to 12 mm (˝ in) long by 8 mm (? in) wide. Each scale contains 2-ovoid winged seed that are 10 mm (? in) long by 4 mm (? in) wide.