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Dacrydium (Greek-made name, referring to the tear-like exudations). Taxaceae. About 16 species of New Zeal., Austral., Malaya and Chile, being: trees or shrubs with closely imbricated scale-like Lvs. on old trees and linear or linear-subulate spreading Lvs. on young trees and lower branches, none apparently in the trade in this country but more or less grown  in European arboreta; allied to Podocarpus, from which it differs in having dimorphic Lvs., peduncle of fr. dry or fleshy (fleshy and enlarged in Podocarpus), and the ovule becoming erect; and to Phyllocladus, which differs in having cladophylla and the true Lvs. reduced to minute scales. Dacrydium is dioecious or rarely monoecious, the fls. not in cone -like structures; male fls. solitary at tips of branchlets and with the uppermost Lvs., females nearly or quite terminal under the If.-like scales: seeds nut-like, ovoid, borne in a cup-like fleshy or thin aril.—These more or less spruce-like trees sometimes attain a height in their native regions of 75-100 ft. Some of the species may be expected to thrive in the southern areas.
 
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Dacrydium (Greek-made name, referring to the tear-like exudations). Taxaceae. About 16 species of New Zeal., Austral., Malaya and Chile, being: trees or shrubs with closely imbricated scale-like Lvs. on old trees and linear or linear-subulate spreading Lvs. on young trees and lower branches, none apparently in the trade in this country but more or less grown  in European arboreta; allied to Podocarpus, from which it differs in having dimorphic Lvs., peduncle of fr. dry or fleshy (fleshy and enlarged in Podocarpus), and the ovule becoming erect; and to Phyllocladus, which differs in having cladophylla and the true Lvs. reduced to minute scales. Dacrydium is dioecious or rarely monoecious, the fls. not in cone -like structures; male fls. solitary at tips of branchlets and with the uppermost Lvs., females nearly or quite terminal under the If.-like scales: seeds nut-like, ovoid, borne in a cup-like fleshy or thin aril.—These more or less spruce-like trees sometimes attain a height in their native regions of 75-100 ft. Some of the species may be expected to thrive in the southern areas.
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Dacrydium (Greek-made name, referring to the tear-like exudations). Taxaceae. About 16 species of New Zeal., Austral., Malaya and Chile, being: trees or shrubs with closely imbricated scale-like Lvs. on old trees and linear or linear-subulate spreading Lvs. on young trees and lower branches, none apparently in the trade in this country but more or less grown in European arboreta; allied to Podocarpus, from which it differs in having dimorphic Lvs., peduncle of fr. dry or fleshy (fleshy and enlarged in Podocarpus), and the ovule becoming erect; and to Phyllocladus, which differs in having cladophylla and the true Lvs. reduced to minute scales. Dacrydium is dioecious or rarely monoecious, the fls. not in cone -like structures; male fls. solitary at tips of branchlets and with the uppermost Lvs., females nearly or quite terminal under the If.-like scales: seeds nut-like, ovoid, borne in a cup-like fleshy or thin aril.—These more or less spruce-like trees sometimes attain a height in their native regions of 75-100 ft. Some of the species may be expected to thrive in the southern areas.


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Species

Dacrydium araucaroides
Dacrydium balansae
Dacrydium beccarii
Dacrydium comosum
Dacrydium cupressinum
Dacrydium cornwalliana
Dacrydium elatum
Dacrydium ericoides
Dacrydium gibbsiae
Dacrydium gracilis
Dacrydium guillauminii
Dacrydium leptophyllum
Dacrydium lycopodoides
Dacrydium magnum
Dacrydium medium
Dacrydium nausoriensis
Dacrydium nidulum
Dacrydium novo-guineense
Dacrydium pectinatum
Dacrydium spathoides
Dacrydium xanthandrum

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