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Podocarpus coriaceus
Podocarpus coriaceus, the yucca plum pine, is a species of conifer in the family Podocarpaceae. It is a tree native to the Puerto Rico, the Leeward Islands and Windward Islands, and Trinidad and Tobago.
This tree is endemic to the West Indies where it has a unique distribution. It is found in the arc of islands from Trinidad to Hispaniola but is completely absent from some islands that would appear to have suitable mountains with ideal growing conditions. It occurs on Trinidad, Tobago, St Lucia, Martinique, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico. It mostly occurs above 500 m (1,640 ft) but also grows lower than this on Nevis, Trinidad and Tobago. In Puerto Rico, it occurs in the mountains in the west and in the Sierra de Luquillo in the east, but not the main Cordillera Central range in the centre of the island where the highest mountains are. The reasons for this patchy distribution are unclear. On some islands it grows on poor sandy soil and in Puerto Rico grows in the "elfin forest" on exposed mountain ridges and summits where the vegetation is scrubby and less than 10 m (30 ft) in height.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Podocarpus coriaceus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
