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Height: 20m

Comments:

Broadly domed tree often to 20 metres or so tall. Bark mostly grey-black and narrowly fissured in old trees orangish when the bark below the surface is exposed. Young shots grey, smooth with only minute scale leaves. Cones are ovoid-conical 5-11cm long, hanging downwards but bent back along the branch, often in clusters and requently closed for several years and remaining on the tree; stalk thick, 1-3cm long.

Recognized by braches and branchlets grey; leaves in dispersed bundles; cones generally numerous in persistent clusters in the crown, frequently bent back on a long stalk to be more or less parallel with the branch, with cone scale tips flattish.