Common Name:
Podocarp
Yellow-wood
About 100 species of evergreen coniferous trees and shrubs; bark exfoliates in strips. Leaves spirally arranged, often twisted at the base and appearing opposite in 2 ranks, flattened, 1-15 cm long. Female cones borne on a naked peduncle (stalk), when mature a soft, red, fleshy bead-like aril, 5-8×3-6 mm, sometimes as large as 15×15 mm. Native to Mexico, Central and South America, Africa, Himalaya to Japan, Australia and New Zealand.
Podarcarpus: from the Greek pous, foot, and karpos, fruit, a reference to the fleshy receptacle at the base of the seed.
Pronunciation:
po-do-KAR-pus
Family:
Podocarpceae