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Retrophyllum filicifolium
Also called Red Podocarp
Retrophyllum filicifolium is a large conifer tree from the Podocarp family, native to montane rainforests of New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago and the Maluku Islands. It is a forest tree rarely grown in gardens, and it needs a cool, humid, wet tropical climate.
Retrophyllum filicifolium is a species of conifer in the family Podocarpaceae. It is a tree native to New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, and the Maluku Islands. It grows in primary montane rain forest and submontane ridge forest, mostly between 900 and 1,500 metres and occasionally as low as 300 metres or up to 1,800 metres elevation. It is associated with trees of genera Dacrycarpus, Agathis, Podocarpus, Serianthes, Syzygium, and Gymnostoma, and emergent palms including Gulubia sp.
The species was first described as Podocarpus filicifolius by Netta Elizabeth Gray in 1962. In 2016 Robert R. Mill placed the species in genus Retrophyllum as R. filicifolium.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Retrophyllum filicifolium 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.
