Kauri
Agathis australis (D.Don) Lindl.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 45 m
- wide
- —
Araucariaceae
Formerly Dammara australis, Dammara purpurascens, Podocarpus zamiifolius, Salisburyodendron australis
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- New Zealand North I.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from RHS, one source
- Height
- 40 m to 50 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -5 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: spread, flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (1)
- Chinese
- 南方贝壳杉, 新西兰贝壳杉
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- 3D model: Agathis australis (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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