Eden

Penang Botanic Gardens Plant Collection

Dacrydium elatum (Roxb.) Wall. ex Hook. (PODOCARPACEAE)

Posted at — Nov 13, 2019
Ekor Kuda

Description

Small to big trees to 40 m tall. Leaves of two types, short and long needle-like. Pollen and seed cones terminal on branchlets with adult leaves. Seeds on swollen receptacle, red when ripe.

Ecology

Lower montane forest 825-1300 m altituede on ridges and summits, elsewhere as low as 100 m, often in wet places such as peat swamp forest and kerangas forest.

Distribution

S China, Thailand, Indo-China, Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo and the Philippines.

Uses

Main source of podo or sempilor wood in SE Asia. Sometimes planted as an ornamental tree.