Huon-pine

Lagarostrobos franklinii is often known as the Huon pine or Macquarie pine, although it is actually a podocarp not a true pine .

The species Lagarostrobos franklinii is a species of conifer native to the wet southwestern corner of Tasmania, Australia; it is the sole species in Lagarostrobos; one other species L. colensoi formerly included has been transferred to a new genus Manoao. The genus was also formerly included in a broader circumscription of the genus Dacrydium. Lagarostrobos franklinii is often known as the Huon pine or Macquarie pine, although it is actually a podocarp (Podocarpaceae) not a true pine (Pinaceae). More

Lagarostrobos franklinii is dioecious and the photo on the right shows both male (left) and female (right) Huon pines. Pollen assumed to be from this plant has been found in sediments more than 100 million years old which suggests that it grew in Australia when it was still part of the super continent known as Gondwana land. More

Lagarostrobos franklinii 'Huon pine' Microcachrys tetragona 'Creeping Pine' Sundacarpus amarus 'Black pine' More