About Callitris columellaris F.Muell.
Callitris columellaris F.Muell. is a small evergreen tree that typically reaches 4–12 m in height, rarely growing as tall as 20 m. Its trunk can grow up to 50 cm in diameter, and it has deeply furrowed bark. The leaves are scale-like, measuring 2–6 mm long and 0.5 mm broad. They are arranged in decussate whorls of three on very slender shoots that are 0.7–1 mm in diameter. The cones are globose, 1–2 cm in diameter, and have six triangular scales; these scales open at maturity to release the tree's seeds. Author Eric Rolls provided the following description of pollination in C. columellaris: "At pollination time when hundreds of cones go off together with a sharp crack and spurt brown pollen a metre into the air, the whole tree shivers."
