Dacrydium cupressinum.
Botanical name:
Dacrydium cupressinum Soland. Coniferae. Imou Pine. Red Pine. Rimu.
A lofty tree of New Zealand. The fleshy cup of the nut is eatable, and a beverage like spruce-beer is made from its young shoots.
Sturtevant's Edible Plants of the World, 1919, was edited by U. P. Hedrick.
