Podocarpus latifolius seeds

Podocarpus latifolius has stalkless, simple leaves that are narrowly elliptic and hard. The blades can be glossy sometimes bluish with the green.

The female tree bears bluish-green cones, the seeds that ripen red-brown and leathery. There is a fleshy, red receptacle that is edible attached to the seed, sometimes two seeds to a receptacle. This serves to induce the hungry consumers, birds and monkeys, to disperse the seeds. The seeds are on the trees during summer. 

Male trees have solitary, nearly cylindrical cones, rough surfaced and pinkish (Venter, 2012; Schmidt, et al, 2002; iNaturalist; www.plantzafrica.com).