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 conical winter buds are densely pubescent with resinous scales that are slightly open at the apex and are found on the yellowish grey branchlets. The linear leaves are slightly curved and flatten with a keel on both sides and it has 4-6 stomatic bands on each surface with an obtuse to mucronate apex.

Flower: The monoecious flowers are pollinated by wind. The staminate (male) brownish pollen cones are narrow-cylindrical and the purplish-black woody pistillate (female) seed cones are cylindrical to ovoid and becoming pendent.They appear during mid-spring.

Fruit: The cylindrical to ovoid seed cones are up to 30 mm (1? in)wide and consists of loosely arranged ovate scales up to 16 mm (? in)long by 12 mm (˝ in) wide and have 29 mm (1? in) long brownish wind seeds.