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 reddish brown winter buds are ovoid-oblong up to 10 mm (⅜ in) long with closely appressed scales. The stout linear keeled leaves are curved with a pungent acute apex and have stomatic bans on each surface. They arranged spirally and ascending on the other side of the pale yellow branchlets. 

Flower: The monoecious flowers are pollinated by wind. The staminate (male) cylindrical red-purple pollen cones are arranged in groups of 1-3 towards the apex and the pale yellow-green narrowly ovoid woody pistillate (female) seed cones are pendent. They appear during late spring.

Fruit: The ovate to oblong seed cones mature to brown and are up to 45 mm (1¾ in) wide. They have persistent obovate thin scales that are 20 mm (¾ in) long by 18 mm (⅝ in) wide and contain black to brown obovate winged seeds that are 6 mm (¼ in) long by 3 mm (⅛ in) wide.