Foliage:
Green (Lustrous, dark green flattened sprays of evergreen foliage)
Soil:
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.
