Native to Vietnam, and vulnerable in the wild the seed has an extremely short shelf life and is normally sold out of date/un-germinable by unscrupulous seed merchants and the plain ignorant middlemen/women. It becomes a tree to 40m tall in the wild. The needles are linear, slightly curved glaucous or dark green above and whitish-green beneath. Purplish-red to green seed cones in time. A slow growing tree, especially initially, and we find that prefers things on the dryer side of medium, especially when young
