Flower Notes:
Yellow (Yellow-brown to orange-yellow, start to show color in March)
Foliage Notes:
Green (Green to blue-green to grayish green evergreen foliage; both needle-like and scale-like)
Fruit Notes:
Blue;brown (;Dioecious; female: whitish blue to brown cones; male:dark brown cones)
Soil Notes:
Widely adapted to soils, except poorly-drained
Diagnostic Characteristics:
Adult leaves are needle/scale-like, rhombic, very stiff, and typically 4-ranked in opposite pairs. Adult abaxial leaf surface has a paler margin, and a small glandular depression. Juvenile growth always produces awl-like leaves (0.3-0.5"), spreading in whorls of 3 or opposite, with green midrib and 2 glaucous bands above, ending in a spiny point.