Flower Notes:
Gold-Yellow (male and female cone in the spring)
Foliage Notes:
Green (Lustrous, dark green flattened sprays of evergreen foliage)
Stem Notes:
branchlets flattened, fan-like sprays in which the ultimate branches point forward
Fruit Notes:
Brown (Cones containing up to 4 seeds each are reddish-brown in the fall.)
Soil Notes:
Prefers moist, well-drained soils, but is quite adaptable to soil type, even tolerating poor soils
Diagnostic Characteristics:
The small, glandular leaves are scale-like, arranged in whorls of 4, on branches of vertically-held, flattened sprays. The foliage is aromatic when crushed, smelling similar to incense. The small (0.75-1" long) cones are flattened and reminiscent of a duck's bill when they open to release seed. Mature bark is cinnamon-red, fibrous, furrowed, and scaly.
