Thumbing through the 500-page Forest Farm Catalog (my resolution
to NOT acquire any new trees may not last long!) I run across
Podocarpus totara from N.Z. The book says the trunk was once
used for canoes up to 80 feet long, but it also says it makes a
good hedge plant and has ONE INCH needles.

Are any of you New Zealanders familiar with this one?

I'm not familliar with it, but Lynne tells me that it's fairly slow growing.
She has no idea about the suitability of it as bonsai. She added that it's
a NZ native that is NOT in cultivation in NZ, and was not aware that it was
being sold overseas. She believes that a lot of the Maori would have a fit
if they knew... But I guess that's another story ;-)

Nic

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