Common name:
Mountain Plum Pine

Family name:
Podocarpaceae

Botanical name:
Podocarpus lawrencei

Flowering/fruiting season:
Summer - autumn

Location:
Sub-alpine habitats (Burbidge & Gray, 1976:10)

Mountain Plum Pine
Use:
Food
'Fleshy stalk of fruit edible. Locally abundant but small yield.' (Flood. 1980:93)
Notes:
Edible, succulent red berry-like 'fruit' on female plants (Costin et al, 2000:86)

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Horticulture:
Hardy plant up to 3m high. Suitable tub plant. (Wrigley & Fagg, 1998:49)

Similar species:
P. elatus Mountain Plum Pine

Use code:
FRT