The timber-millers here called rimu Red Pine, and indeed rimu trees do have cones. But these are cones you can eat!

Like the northern world's pines and cedars, rimu trees are called gymno-sperms and thus have naked-seeds on their cones.

And all female cones, including rimu cones, have a central axis bearing seeds and scales. But the rimu's cones have evolved to become small enough to be swallowed by birds, with just one seed, and swollen fleshy scales.
You can see them swelling up going from left to right below.
        
      

Birds' wings can carry rimu seeds much further than than the little wings on pine cone seeds, eh?

Rimu trees are classed as podo-carps (foot-fruit); and a row of rimu cones does look like the toes of a foot with dirty toenails.

Other Podocarps in this forest with similar cone-fruits that you can eat are totara and kahikatea. Use your Aotearoa app to identify them. But don't eat too many!                              

MAORI HERITAGE
You can follow 7000 years of gradual change of the word omo-omotan to rimu, and thus fillow the migration routes of the ancestors of Maori, on this MAP. Touch the dots. How many stone tools do you think were sharpened, how many voyaging waka were built with with them, how many pandanus ropes and sails hand-woven, to get from Formosa to Aotearoa?

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