Dacrycarpus dacrydioides

A coniferous podocarp, one of New Zealand's tallest trees reaching up to 60 meters high over its long lifespan.
In Māori culture, it is an important source of timber for the building of waka and making of tools, of food in the form of its berries, and of dye. Its use for timber and its damp fertile habitat, ideal for dairy farming, have led to its decimation almost everywhere except South Westland.
As a conifer, kahikatea has no flowers and instead has cones. Male cones, which occur on different trees to female ones.
It used to dominate a swamp forest type that now exists almost only on the South Westland region of the South Island. Kahikatea prefers flooded or alluvial soils with low levels of drainage.