Propagation
Sow fresh seeds in flats during spring and slightly cover and keep moist. Maintain a temperature of 18º to 21º C. (64º to 75º F) and prick out when large enough to handle and pot-up into tubes.

Botanic information
Leaf: The reduced scale leaves are arranged in whorls of 7 to 9 yellowish teeth around at the joints on the dark green branchlets  (cladodes) with a furrows and are up to 200 mm (7¾ in) long.

Flower: The reddish-brown male flower are arranged in a catkin-like spike that is up to 28 mm (1⅛ in) long. The reddish female flower has no perianth segments and consists of 2-fused carpels. The shrub is dioecious or monoecious and the flowers appear from late winter to spring.

Fruit: The long-cylindrical cone-like capsule is up to 40 mm (1⅝ in) long by 17 mm (⅝ in) in diameter. The dark shinny seeds (samara) up to 10 mm (⅜ in) long and have a long viability period. They are spread by birds or dispersed by gravity and the seeds germinate after fire or disturbance.