Evergreen conical conifer growing on poorly drained soils in montane and subalpine forest. Juvenile foliage markedly different from adult scale leaves. Wood yields manool, used in commercial fragrances, now protected from exploitation. POT grown.

Narrow columnar juvenile form with slender interlacing branchlets, changing to an adult form with spreading crown. Flowers often single, white mildly fragrant, through summer and early autumn. Lowland forests south from Taranaki & Hawkes Bay. PLUG grown.

Broadly conical, evergreen. Sweetly scented abundant white flowers in March. Good screening tree. PLUG grown.

Narrowly conical when young, evergreen. White flowers in profusion from Dec. worked by bees. Tolerates exposed, wet and infertile sites. Useful nurse shrub for native revegetation projects. PLUG grown.