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Like most endemic alpine conifers to Tasmania, the growth rate of Pherosphaera hookeriana is extremely slow. Plants that have a stem diameter of 3–6 cm having an estimated age of 250–300 years on Mawson Plateau in Mt Field National Park (Minchin 1983) with the actual maximum ages likely exceeding 500 years.
'Conica' is a dwarf conifer with very slender leaves, like those normally found only on one-year-old seedlings, and very slow growth, typically only 2–10 cm (3 ⁄ 4 –4 in) per year. Older specimens commonly ' revert ', developing normal adult foliage and starting to grow much faster; this 'reverted' growth must be pruned if the plant is to ...
It is a slow-growing tree which may reach 35 m (115 ft) tall [5] with a trunk up to 1 m (3 ft 3 in) in diameter. [citation needed] The bark is dark red-brown.The leaves are scale-like, 2–4 mm (0.079–0.157 in) long, blunt tipped (obtuse), green above, and green below with a white stomatal band at the base of each scale-leaf.
It is a slow-growing coniferous tree growing to 35–50 m tall with a trunk up to 2 m in diameter. The bark is red-brown, vertically fissured and with a stringy texture. The foliage is arranged in flat sprays; adult leaves are scale-like, 1.5–2 mm long, with pointed tips (unlike the blunt tips of the leaves of the related Chamaecyparis obtusa (hinoki cypress), green above, green below with a ...
A slow-growing and long-lived pioneer species that helps reduce the movement of soil and snow. The seeds are a source of nutrition for birds, small mammals, black bears and grizzly bears . Uses: no significant economic uses [ 63 ] [ 64 ]
Prostrate slow-growing conifer, 1–2 m (3 ft 3 in – 6 ft 7 in) in width 1–1.5 mm (0.039–0.059 in), dense, opposite and decussate along branchlets, giving a square appearance: Male and female cones on separate plants. Male cones small and terminal. Female cones terminal and fleshy and red when mature: The only natural prostrate conifer