Athrotaxis \u2013 Tasmanian Cedar<\/h1>\n

There are 3 species, one of which is a natural hybrid, of slow growing, long lived, compact, coniferous trees, in this genus. \u00a0They are found in mountainous areas of Western Tasmania and Australia in rocky gullies on exposed rigids or around lakes. \u00a0They usually take 2 or 3 decades to reach tree size. \u00a0They have fissured bark that shreds in red to gray-brown stripes. \u00a0It produces flattened needle to scale like or ovate overlapping leaves arranged in spirals and lying flat. \u00a0\u00a0They bear spherical or ovoid cones that are green ripening to brown. \u00a0Female cones have 10-16 scales. \u00a0Great as a small specimen trees, and will thrive in areas with cool humid summer.<\/p>\n

Grow these moderately frost hardy trees in cool, permanently moist, but well drained, moderately fertile, humus rich, preferably slightly acidic soil in full sun.<\/p>\n

Athrotaxis selaginoides \u2013 King Billy Pine \u2013 King William Pine<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 This conical coniferous tree from Western Tasmania grows to 50-100\u2019 feet tall and 12-25\u2019 feet wide but less is more common. \u00a0The fissured, shredding, soft reddish-brown bark grows on a trunk that can reach 8\u2019 feet in diameter. \u00a0It produces incurved, sharply pointed, bright green ovate leaves up to \u00bd\u201d long with contrasting white banded undersides. \u00a0In spring it bears spherical cones up to 1 \u00bc\u201d long becoming orange brown when ripe. \u00a0Formely important timber tree.<\/p>\n

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Athrotaxis \u2013 Tasmanian Cedar There are 3 species, one of which is a natural hybrid, of slow growing, long lived, compact, coniferous trees, in this genus. \u00a0They are found in mountainous areas of Western Tasmania and Australia in rocky gullies on exposed rigids or around lakes. \u00a0They usually take 2 or 3 decades to reach […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":31667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[53,21,20],"product_tag":[],"common-name":[],"toolset-meta":{"plant-product-fields":{"is-featured-product":{"type":"checkbox","raw":""},"zone":{"type":"checkboxes","raw":"","checked":[],"formatted":""},"scientific-name":{"type":"textfield","raw":""}},"toolset-woocommerce-fields":{"_download_limit":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_virtual":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_downloadable":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_download_expiry":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_download_type":{"type":"radio","raw":""},"_regular_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price_dates_from":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sale_price_dates_to":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sku":{"type":"textfield","raw":"PDE-160251894"},"_manage_stock":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_stock_status":{"type":"radio","raw":"instock"},"_stock":{"type":"numeric","raw":null},"_backorders":{"type":"radio","raw":"no"},"_sold_individually":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_width":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_weight":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_length":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_purchase_note":{"type":"textarea","raw":""}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/3468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=3468"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=3468"},{"taxonomy":"common-name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/common-name?post=3468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}