About
Phyllocladus trichomanoides, the celery pine of New Zealand, is an upright, conical, evergreen tree ultimately reaching 12 m with smooth, grey-black bark and branches in whorls. The foliage consists of 30 cm-long phylloclades � flattened stems that replace true leaves � reddish-brown when young then mid-green. In spring it produces spherical, dark-blue or black female cones and catkin-like male cones starting purple and ripening to red then yellow. A distinctive and ornamental conifer for a sheltered, sunny garden.
About the genus
Phyllocladus, the celery pines, are a small genus of evergreen conifer trees or shrubs from New Zealand, Tasmania and the southern hemisphere with two types of leaf � scale-like and flattened, celery-like phylloclades � and pinkish-red cones in early spring.
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