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Podocarpus latifolius
Also called Real Yellowwood, True Yellowwood, Upright Yellowwood, East African Yellowwood, South African Podocarpus, Podo, Yellowwood
Broad-leaved yellowwood is a large conifer from South African forests, growing slowly into a big tree with valuable timber. It is the type species of the genus Podocarpus and South Africa's national tree, so it is protected there and rarely grown as a garden plant outside its range.
Podocarpus latifolius (real yellowwood, broad-leaved yellowwood, or South African yellowwood, Afrikaans: Opregte-geelhout, Northern Sotho: Mogôbagôba, Xhosa: Umcheya, Zulu: Umkhoba) is a large coniferous tree growing up to 35 m tall and 3 m in trunk diameter. It is the type species of the genus Podocarpus.
The real yellowwood is the national tree of South Africa and is protected there.
It is native to the moister southern and eastern areas of South Africa, from coastal areas of the Western Cape east to KwaZulu-Natal and north to eastern Limpopo, and to Eswatini and Lesotho.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Podocarpus latifolius 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.
