Description
Dacrycarpus dacrydioides, New Zealand’s stately kahikatea, forms a tall, slim silhouette with gently drooping branchlets and velvety light-green foliage. Young growth emerges a warm brown before maturing to green. Favouring damp riparian sites—along streams, lakes, and ponds—it produces yellow-green catkins from mid-spring through mid-summer, offering bees a welcome pollen feast. From late summer into autumn, clusters of vivid orange-red “fruit” sit beneath a dark purplish seed, providing nutritious fare for native birds. Evergreen and endemic, this tree is both elegant and ecologically valuable.
EverGreen
Height 8m
Width 5m
Estimate after 10 years
