The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Dacrydium novoguineense is a conifer tree from the Podocarp family, native to montane rain forests of New Guinea at 1,300 to 2,800 m. It is rarely grown as a garden or houseplant, so care advice is general and best suited to cool, wet tropical highland conditions.
Dacrydium novoguineense is a species of conifer in the family Podocarpaceae. It is a tree endemic to New Guinea. It is a widespread and common tree in montane rain forests, extending from the Vogelkop Peninsula to the eastern Highlands. It ranges from 1,300 to 2,800 metres elevation. At elevations below 2,200 metres it is an emergent tree growing above the forest canopy. At higher elevations it is a small tree growing among other low trees, shrubs, and tree ferns in low forest or scrub. It grows in diverse soil types including clay, sand, peat, and quartzite and other rocky soils. It regenerates abundantly after fires and can become temporarily dominant.
The species was first described by Lilian Suzette Gibbs in 1917.
Dacrydium araucarioides · Dacrydium balansae · Dacrydium beccarii · Dacrydium comosum · Dacrydium cornwallianum · New Zealand red pine · Dacrydium elatum · Dacrydium ericoides · Dacrydium gibbsiae · Dacrydium gracile · Cat Tail Rimu · Dacrydium leptophyllum
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dacrydium novoguineense 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.
