| Scientific Name: | Podocarpus nivalis |
| Common Name: | alpine totara, mountain totara |
| Family Name: | Podocarpaceae |
| Origin: | Australia / New Zealand |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 7: (-18 to -12 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Conifer |
| Mature Size: | 1.3 - 2.0m x 1.5 - 2.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Dense, Spreading |
| Form: | Mounded, Round |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract birds, Ground cover, Mixed shrub border, Rock garden, Woodland margin |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Filtered shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Needle-like, Alternate, Spiraled, Leathery, Glabrous, Linear, Oblong, Entire |
| Flowers: | n/a (male cone), Yellow, Red, Jun-Jul |
| Fruit: | Edible, (Accessory tissue), Green, Red, Oct-Nov |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves dense, spirally arranged, leathery, linear-oblong, 5-15mm long x 2-4mm wide, tips pointed or rounded; seed cone berry-like, red receptacle with green nut-like seed appendage; seeds solitary, ovoid, 3.5-5.5mm long. <a href ='https://www.conifers.org/po/Podocarpus_nivalis.php' target='_blank'>Conifers.org</a> | |