Podocarpus laetus, Hall's Podocarpus Fruiting Uses: Shade tree

Uses: Shade tree

Notes: A rare and beautiful native cypress that adapts well to bonsai

small leaflets

It gradually spreads by rhizome and can create a self contained forest

It checks many boxes

Podocarpus laetus, Hall's Podocarpus Fruiting Uses: Shade treeUSDA Cold Hardiness Zone: 8 Native Range: New Zealand. Soil: Tolerant of a wide range of conditions including stream banks and dry, rocky impoverished soils Light: Full sun. Height in the Garden: 60' Attributes: Hall's podocarpus is a needle leaf evergreen in the podocarpaceae. Podocarpaceae is mostly restricted to the southern hemisphere and is fairly unusual here in North America other than P. macrophyllus. It is a gymnosperm, but doesn't make cones