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Podocarpus parlatorei
Also called Parlatore's Podocarp
Pino Blanco is a tree (occasionally a shrub) from the Andean foothills of Bolivia and Argentina, valued historically for its soft timber and grown locally as a hedge. It is a conifer rather than a typical garden tree, so its care is mainly about cool, frost-free conditions and well-drained soil.
Podocarpus parlatorei is a species of tree in the family Podocarpaceae, native to Argentina and Bolivia, where it grows on steep hillsides on the eastern flanks of the Andes. It has been harvested commercially in the past but is now protected under CITES. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed its status as being "near threatened".
Podocarpus parlatorei is endemic to the eastern flanks of the Andes in northwestern Bolivia and Argentina. It occurs at elevations between 950 and 3,000 m (3,100 and 9,800 ft) and occupies a strip of countryside about 1,000 km (600 mi) long in a north/south direction and up to 100 km (60 mi) wide. The population is fragmented into a number of subpopulations by the lowland forests and dry river valleys that dissect the steep-sided foothills.
The timber is lightweight, soft and easy to work. It has been used commercially for making pencils and for building construction, flooring, furniture making, veneers, posts and utensils. Its international commercial trade has now been banned by its listing in Appendix I of CITES because excessive logging was depleting populations, but it is still harvested for local use. It is also used in field boundaries and around houses as hedges.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Podocarpus parlatorei 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.
