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 dull bluish green 4-angled curved linear leaves have a yellowish pungent apex with 4 to 8 stomatic bands on both sides. The leaf cushion is glaucous and the leaves are pointing forward or ascending predominantly on the upper part of the branchlet.

Flower: The staminate (male) pollen cones are catkin-like and the greenish woody pistillate (female) cones are upright at first, then bend down becoming pendent.The monoecious flowers appear during spring and are pollinated by wind.

Fruit: The oblong cylindrical female cones are greenish when a young maturing to pale reddish brown and are up to 160 mm (6Ľ in) long by 35mm (1? in) wide with an obtuse apex. It has obovate scales have entire margins and contain 2-pale brown obovate winged seeds up to 11 mm (? in) long.