Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Podocarpus elatus
Common name
Plum pine, Brown pine
Family
Podocarpaceae
Where found
In and around forest, and along streams. Coastal north from Jervis Bay.
Notes
Tree to 40 m high. Stalks of seeds fleshy. Bark brown to dark brown bark, fibrous, often fissured and scaly on old trees. Stems longitudinally ribbed, hairless. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, alternating up the stems, crowded, 3–18 cm long, 6–18 mm wide, tips pointed or blunt, surfaces glossy, dark green. Male and female cones on different plants. Male cones narrow-cylindrical, 20–50 mm long. Female cones when ripe consisting of a an almost round blue-black waxy seed 8-15 mm in diameter, with a blue-black or purple, glaucous, fleshy stalk 15–25 mm long. Male cones in clusters of 2–4, female cones single. Female cones ripe Mar.-July.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Podocarpus~elatus (accessed 1 February, 2021)
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