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Callitris preissii
Also called Rottnest Island Pine, Murray Pine, Rottnest Island Cypress Pine, Common Cypress Pine, Lachlan Pine, Light Pine, Mountain Cypress Pine
Callitris preissii is a slow-growing Australian conifer, grown as a tree or shrub, valued for windbreaks, shade and as an ornamental or street tree. Give it full sun and well-drained soil, as it tolerates dry conditions once established.
Callitris preissii is a species of conifer in the cypress family, Cupressaceae. It a tree native to southern Australia, ranging from Western Australia to South Australia, Victoria, and New South Wales. Common names include Rottnest Island pine, Murray pine, maroong, southern cypress pine, and slender cypress pine. The Noongar peoples call the tree marro.
In Western Australia it is native to the Swan Coastal Plain, Rottnest Island, and Garden Island but has become naturalised elsewhere and now has a scattered distribution throughout the Mid West, Wheatbelt, Peel, Great Southern and Goldfields-Esperance regions where it is found on plains, slopes, the margins of salt lakes and among granite outcrops growing in sandy, loamy or clay soils.
The plant makes a good windbreak or functions as a shelterbelt or shade for stock. The trunks make ideal fence posts and it has good ornamental attributes. The plant's pollen has value for apiculture. In urban areas it makes a good ornamental plant, or a free street tree, and is suitable as a screen or hedge.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Callitris preissii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
