| General Description | A medium sized evergreen shrub to small tree with a strong spreading habit. Mature foliage can have an olive green to reddish green colour. The seeds are unique, small, green to brown cones with a white to yellow aril around the base. |
| ID Characteristic | Distinctive green to brown cones, typically a low growing shrub with reddish to olive green foliage. |
| Landscape | Very little landscape value due to irregular spreading form. |
| Propagation | Can be propagated from hardwood cuttings with a low rate of success. Best propagated from seed planted in a moist well drained soil. |
| Cultivation | Prefers a moist well drained soil, does not tolerate humid or dry conditions. |
| Habitat | Tolerant of many conditions from the margins of wetlands, poorly drained areas to stony grasslands. |
| Bark/Stem Description | Young bark is a light reddish brown changing to grey as it matures. |
| Leaf Description | Clearly visible stomata on both immature and mature foliage, thick leathery scale like leaves spread around a branchlet. Young leaves are a vivid green colour, maturing into a olive green to reddish-green colour. |
| Flower Description | Pollen cones are solitary at the end of branchlets, 3-5 mm long surrounded by leaf like bracts. |
| Fruit Description | Cones are 2-3 mm long with a compressed oval shape, white to yellow aril at the base of the cone. |
| Colour Description | New foliage is a vibrant green colour, maturing to an olive or reddish-green colour. The bark is a reddish brown which matures to a lighter grey colour. Distinctive green to brown colour to the cones with white to yellow aril. |
| Texture Description | Rough. |
