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Podocarpus purdieanus
Also called Yacca
St. Ann yacca is a conifer tree endemic to central Jamaica, grown mainly for its valuable timber and rarely cultivated as an ornamental. It is a forest tree of limestone hills and needs a long-lived, large canopy space rather than indoor or container culture.
Podocarpus purdieanus , the yacca or St. Ann yacca, is a species of conifer in the family Podocarpaceae. It is endemic to Jamaica.
It grows in dense moist forest on limestone from 350 to 870 metres elevation. It can be found amongst species such as Terminalia latifolia, Cedrela odorata, Calophyllum brasiliense var. antillanum, and Jupunba alexandri. This tree makes valuable lumber, so it has been overharvested, resulting in its current fragmented population that is limited to central Jamaica.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Podocarpus purdieanus 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.
