Species · genus Podocarpus · Podocarpaceae

True Yellowwood

Podocarpus latifolius (Thunb.) R.Br. ex Mirb.

Also known as: Upright Yellowwood · Broad-leaved Yellowwood · East African Yellowwood · Podo · Real Yellowwood

Growth habit

tree

Native range

Cape Provinces, Eswatini, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Northern Provinces

Reference · P. latifolius

Cultivars of P. latifolius

The named forms growers keep — each with its own page, each honest about how much we know.

No named cultivars catalogued under P. latifolius yet. When growers document a stable, named form, it earns its own page here.

Guide

The species-level account. Cultivar pages build on this and say where they differ.

Podocarpus latifolius is a coniferous evergreen tree from the mist-belt forests and slopes of southern Africa, where it grows as an upright, slow-building plant with fine needle-like foliage. Indoors it wants bright indirect light and a free-draining mix that is allowed to approach dryness between waterings — water when the top inch or two of mix is dry to the touch. It tolerates ordinary household humidity and resents standing water, which rots its roots.

Care recipe

The species record — the baseline every cultivar inherits unless it says otherwise.

Care notes are early — not yet verified

Light: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Water: ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 7-14d)
Humidity: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Soil: ai:claude-fable-5
Care: ai:claude-fable-5

Light

Bright, indirect

Water

≈ every 14 days

Humidity

Medium

Temperature

8–24 °C

Soil mix

Well-draining loamy mix with grit for aeration

Propagation

Semi-hardwood cuttings or fresh seed, both slow

Fertilizing

Balanced liquid feed monthly in the growing season

Growth rate

Slow

Flowering

Rarely flowers indoors

ToxicityAuthoritative · species

Not yet documented

This is where toxicity lives — every cultivar of this species inherits it and none can override it.

Reference images

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Sources: ai:claude-opus-4-8 · ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 7-14d) · ai:claude-fable-5

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