Podocarpus macrophyllus yew pine

Podocarpus macrophyllus at Durand Building. Sairus Patel, 19 Jan 2023

Podocarpus macrophyllus cones. John Rawlings, ca. 2005

A tall specimen stands on the north side of Durand Building near the west corner. A smaller columnar tree, clothed in leaves to the bottom is on the right of the cut-through pathway south of 736 Mayfield Avenue. Two others are against the right corner of the building at 801 Welch Road. A hedge in the Science and Engineering Quad near the olive grove may be the smaller maki variety, the shrubby yew pine.

See the drooping leaves of the related P. henkelii, long-leafed yellowwood, at 2349 Dartmouth Street in Palo Alto, at the fence on the California Avenue side.

Name derivation: Podocarpus – From Gk. podos (foot) and karpos (seed) referring to the fleshy receptacle on which the fruit is borne; macrophyllus – large-leaved.