Kris Wiinholt - Horticulture Training Program/2016 - UBC Botanical Garden & Center For Plant Research @ The University Of British Columbia - 6804 S.W. Marine Dr. Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4
Podocarpus lawrencei
Botanical Name: Podocarpus lawerncei
Common Name: mountain plum-pine
Family Name: Podocarpaceae
Distribution/Origin: Australia
Description:
The leaves are 1 cm long and 2–3 mm broad, green, often reddish-tinted, particularly so in cold winter weather. It has small bright red berry-like cones, with a 5–10 mm long red aril and one (rarely two) apical seeds 6–8 mm long; they are eaten by birds and marsupials, but are toxic to most other mammals (including humans).
While it is normally low growing, rarely reaching more than 1 m in the Australian Alps, on the Errinundra Plateau in eastern Victoria it reaches 15 m in height. The timber is too rare to be used for woodcrafts.
Notes: Evergreen
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