Podocarpus elongatus Icee Blue
Icee Blue podocarpus
Southern Africa
Podocarpus elongatus Icee Blue cones, Campus Drive. Sairus Patel, 31 Dec 2024
Several specimens of this small, upright conifer, with frosty bluish-gray foliage, grow in the Southern African Mediterranean-climate garden at the intersection of Campus Drive and Santa Teresa Street, scattered along the eastern side of the junction.
Some have developed seed cones, first observed in 2024: a fleshy receptacle forms the base or “foot,” with the seed perched above – a structure that gives us the name Podo-carpus, or “foot-fruit.” The introducer of the cultivar, along with other propagators, describe it as not yet having coned. Could Stanford’s trees be the first?
References:
- Main References for New Tree Entries.
- Monrovia. n.d. “Icee Blue® Yellow-Wood.” Accessed 28 Jan 2026. (The page says: “There has been no report of this plant coning, so it has not been determined if this dioecious conifer is a male or a female selection.”)
About this Entry: Authored Jan 2025 by Sairus Patel. Updated (Jan 2026, SP).
