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Podocarpaceae

Totara

Podocarpus totara G.Benn. ex D.Don

Family
Podocarpaceae
Genus
Podocarpus

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Totara: Giant lowland totara tree (31 metres tall, 8.4 metres around the trunk, 1000 years old), Peel Forest, Canterbury, New Zealand
Photo: Tomas Sobek, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons

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Common names

By language (15)
Arabic
معلاقة توتارا
arz
بودوكاربوس توتارا
Chinese
桃柘罗汉松, 桃柘羅漢松, 紐西蘭羅漢松
Czech
Nohoplod totara
English
Totara, Tōtara
Finnish
Maorinpodokarpus
German
Totara, Tōtara
hsb
Totara
Hungarian
Árlevelű kőtiszafa
Japanese
トタラマキ, トタラ
Macedonian
Тотара
Māori
Tōtara, Totara
Polish
Zastrzalin totara, Totara
Russian
Подокарп тотара, Тотара
Spanish
Totara

Synonyms

  • Nageia totara (G.Benn. ex D.Don) F.Muell.
  • Podocarpus totara subsp. waihoensis (Wardle) Silba
  • Podocarpus totara var. waihoensis Wardle
  • Podocarpus variegatus hort.

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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.