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Syzygium paniculata

An elegant tall evergreen tree. Add a Mediterranean element to your garden or landscape design with this super popular tree for SA gardens.

Fast growing, you can create an informal sweep up a long driveway, and an impressive evergreen screen. Handsome bluish-green foliage. Slender in natural habit, it is a graceful and dense tree, this pencil pine (glauca) produces a very low number of cones. Low maintenance, It thrives in average to poor soils and does not enjoy too much moisture. 

  • Like full sun

  • 6m high and 0.8m wide

  • Coastal, poor soils, dry average soils

  • Yes

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