Spreading tree about 6m high. Bark peeling with small brown scales (collected). Shoots brown. Buds reddish-brown, not resinous. Conelets purple. Cones dark purplish-brown, at first maturity, opening later and then apophyses brown. Foliage dense and clustered, dark green. Cultivated as this species. On north slope, young, open plantation. See wood collection and cone collection.