Where found:

• Shelter or specimen.
• Sea level to 250 metres.
  
• Tolerates a wide range of soil conditions including low fertility. Prefers sandy, well drained soil.
  

• Upright pyramidal tree. Branches grow horizontally in a tiered fashion and it is nearly always symmetrical, even in windy positions.
• Dark green leathery leaves, 5 to 9 millimetres and spirally arranged or overlapping.
  
• Male pollen cone is cylindrical, female is ovoid. Rounded cones, 9 to 13 centimetres in diameter, grow towards the top of the tree.
  
• Dark grey/brown bark peeling in thin flakes, elastic, deep pink beneath.
  
• Exremely hardy to coastal winds and salt spray. Tolerant of minor frosts, although seedlings are frost tender and require protection when young.