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|familia=Podocarpaceae
|familia=Podocarpaceae
|genus=Saxegothaea
|genus=Saxegothaea
|species=conspicua
|species=conspicua
|common_name=Prince Albert's yew
|common_name=Prince Albert's yew
|usda_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|usda_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|max_zone=10
|max_zone=10
|image=Upload.png
|image=Saxegothea conspicua 3.jpg
|image_width=240
|image_width=240
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'''''Saxegothaea''''' is a [[genus]] comprising a single [[species]] of [[Pinophyta|conifer]] belonging to the podocarp family [[Podocarpaceae]], its full scientific name is '''Saxegothaea conspicua''', native to southern [[South America]]. It grows in [[Chile]] and [[Argentina]] from 35° to 46° South latitude, in its northernmost natural distribution it
grows between 800 and 1000 (2600-3300 ft) m above sea level and in the south it lives at sea level. The species is most often known by its genus name, or sometimes as '''Female Maniu''' (a translation of its name in Spanish) and "Prince Albert's Yew", although it is not a [[Taxus|yew]] (''Taxus'').
It is a slow-growing, long-lived evergreen [[tree]] growing to 15-25 m (50-80 ft)tall, with a trunk up to 1 m in diameter. The [[bark]] is thin and flaky to scaly, dark purple-browk. The [[leaf|leaves]] are arranged in an irregular spiral; they are lanceolate, 1.5-3 cm long, 2 mm broad, fairly hard with a prickly spine tip, dark green above, and with two glaucous blue-white [[stomata]]l bands below. The [[conifer cone|cones]] are 1 cm long, with 15-20 soft scales; usually only 2-4 scales on each cone are fertile, bearing a single [[seed]] 3 mm in diameter.
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Saxegothaea (in honor of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, consort of Queen Victoria). Taxaceae. An evergreen tree, native of Chile, similar in habit and foliage to the yew: monoecious, staminate fls. in cylindrical spikes clustered at the end of the branchlets; pistillate fls. solitary at the end of branchlets: fr. a small stalked irregularly subglobose cone with the scales terminating in spiny flattened points; seeds ovate, keeled, lustrous, brown. The plant is not hardy North and it is doubtful whether it is in cult. in this country; it is of slow growth and has no particular ornamental merit, but botanically it is very interesting. Prop. is by intro. seeds or by cuttings treated like those of taxus; it also may be grafted on taxus or podocarpus. S. conspicua, Lindl. Tree, to 40 ft., with whorled drooping branches: lvs. linear or linear-lanceolate, spiny-pointed, at the base abruptly contracted into a short decurrent stalk, dark green above, with 2 broad white lines beneath, 1/2-l in. long: staminate spikes 1/4 in. long: fr. about 1/2 in. across.
S. gracilis, Hort.-Podocarpus nubigena.
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==Cultivation==
==Cultivation==