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Podocarpus elongatus (Breede River yellowwood; Cape yellowwood)

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Language: Afr; Afrikaans; Chi; Rus

Wikipedia Abstract

Podocarpus elongatus (Breeder River yellowwood) is a species of conifer in the Podocarpaceae family. Unlike the other yellowwoods of Southern Africa, Podocarpus elongatus grows as an enormous, round, multi-stemmed bush.It can be distinguished from the other yellowwood species of Southern Africa by its relatively elongated, grey-blue leaves (hence its species name "elongatus"), and by its round, bushy shape. It is generally as wide as it is tall. This is the only one of South Africa's Yellowwoods that coppice when the trunk is damaged. As it is a riverine species, this ability to coppice is an adaptation to survive being knocked down by floods.
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Attributes

Leaf Type [1]  Evergreen
Structure [1]  Tree

Predators

Aonidiella taxus (Asiatic red scale)[2]
Parlatoria pittospori (mauve pittosporum scale)[2]
Pulvinaria floccifera (cottony camellia scale)[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
2Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0