One of the most critically endangered conifers in the world: a slow-growing, pyramidal evergreen with stiff, sharp, dark-green needles whose crushed foliage gives off a pungent smell that earned it the name 'stinking cedar.' Torreya taxifolia is native only to a tiny stretch of cool, shaded bluffs and ravines along the Apalachicola River in the Florida panhandle and adjacent Georgia, where a fungal disease (alongside historic land-use and fire changes) collapsed the wild population to a small remnant that mostly resprouts from the base but rarely reaches maturity. In cultivation it is a 30-50 foot specimen at most, shade-tolerant when young and wanting cool, moist, well-drained ravine-like conditions. This is a conservation-collection plant and a botanical curiosity, NOT a mainstream landscape tree; ethically sourced, nursery-propagated, conservation-program material is what matters here, and an active assisted-migration effort (the 'Torreya Guardians') has controversially planted it well north of its native range.