Araucaria bidwillii
Monkey Puzzle Tree, Bunya Bunya Tree
While they are related to pine trees, their horizontal tiers of stiff branches and many small, pointed, flat or needlelike leaves give them a decidedly different look.
Araucaria
Family: Arauceriaceae.
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Araucaria heterophylla (Araucaria excelsa) Common name(s): Norfolk island palm ...
Araucaria cunninghamii. HOOP PINE. New South Wales, Queensland, New Guinea
ARAUCARIACEAE (Araucaria family) ...
Norfolk pine Araucariaceae Araucaria heterophylla (Salisb.) Franco symbol: ARHE12
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In 1990, Chile, where no monkeys reside, declared Araucaria araucana to be a national monument. The tree is protected by CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora).
Hardy to USDA Zone 7 (The hardiest of the araucarias.) Native to the volcanic slopes of the Andes on the Chilean side, also into Argentina.
Araucaria araucana (monkey puzzle)
The monkey puzzle was given its name by an observer who thought that monkeys wouldn’t be able to climb the spiky branches.
Araucaria araucana in Chile (Image: Martin Gardner) ...
#8 Araucaria araucana
Common Names: monkey-puzzle tree, Chilean pine
Family: Araucariaceae (araucaria Family)
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Genus: Araucaria
Species: araucana
The Latin term Araucaria is derived from the name of a Chilean tribe who inhabited a region where another Araucaria species was first discovered.
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Botanical Name: Araucaria heterophylla
Norfolk Island pine is an evergreen conifer that makes a handsome house plant. Its long, horizontal branches are densely covered with short, soft needles that become darker as the plant ages.
Araucaria araucana
COMMON: Monkey Puzzle Tree
LEAVES: Evergreen, green, spiny pointed leaves, spirally arranged around the branch
SIZE: 50 to 80' and more
HARDINESS: Up to 7
HABIT: Upright, pyramidal to oval ...
Araucaria heterophylla
Norfolk Island Pines (Araucaria heterophylla) are native of Norfolk Island ...somewhere between New Caledonia and Australia in the South Pacific.
Araucaria heterophylla
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Araucaria heterophylla - Norfolk Island Pine
Araucaria heterophylla (syn. A exce1sa) Norfolk Island Pine 7°C (45°F). Norfolk Island.
Araucariaceae: The Monkey-Puzzle Family
Agathis - Kauri Conifers
Agathis australis - Kauri Pine; Dammar
Agathis lanceolata - Red Kauri
Agathis robusta - Dundathu Pine; Queensland Kauri; Smooth Bark Kauri ...
Araucaria heterophylla. Norfolk Island Pine. Tallest tree in Bermuda and can grow 200 feet high. It is called such because it was originally from this island in the Pacific, off New Zealand. The trunk can be seven feet in diameter.
ARAUCARIA ARAUCANA - Monkey Puzzle Tree
This Chilean pine tree is a relative of the Norfolk Island Pine, but the tiered branches are weirdly shaped, which accounts for its common name. Grown from North Carolina southward in the U.S.
Family Araucariaceae
Trees evergreen , dioecious or monoecious, with relatively large pith in trunk and resin in cortex. Leaves spirally arranged or decussate, sessile, decurrent. Cones unisexual .
Araucaria is a genus of coniferous trees. There are 19 species in the genus, with a highly disjunct distribution in New Caledonia (where 13 species are endemic), Norfolk Island, eastern Australia, New Guinea, Argentina, Chile, and southern Brazil.
Araucaria araucana: monkey puzzle tree - A large, spreading tree, growing to 80 ft. and 30-40 ft. wide. Has two inch needles and branches which grow in a whorled pattern.
Araucariaceae - 3 images
Agathis robusta
QUEENSLAND KAURI
15 - 16 and 20 - 23 ...
Araucaria heterophylla ( Gracilis Norfolk Island Pine )
Araucaria heterophylla ( Norfolk Island Pine )
Arbutus menziesii ( Madrona ) ...
[Araucariaceae + Podocarpaceae]: gums +; roots with endomycorrhizal nodules; prothallial cells divide [?Phyllocladus]; ovule one/ovulate scale; proembryo with 5 or 6 free-nuclear divisions; 2nd intron in nad1 gene lost.
Subject : Araucaria
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Araucaria araucana
Chamaecyparis lawsoniana, C. obtusa, C. pisifera
Ginkgo biloba AGM
Juniperus chinensis, J. Ã- pfitzeriana, J. virginiana
Picea abies, P. glauca, P. omorika AGM, P. orientalis AGM, P. pungens
Pseudotsuga menziesii AGM ...
Monkey-Puzzle (Araucaria) - A noble group of cone-bearing trees, most of them too tender for our winters. A. imbricata is a native of Chili, and the only species which does at all well on high ground.
evergreen tree (Araucaria araucana) native to Chile and widely cultivated elsewhere as an ornamental. The symmetrical branches have an unusual angularity and are completely covered by the stiff, overlapping leaves.
Aloe barbadensis Aloe chinensis Aloe saponaria Alpinia zerumbet Alpinia zerumbet 'variegata' Alyxia daphnoides Amaryllis belladonna Amorphophallus bulbifer Anacampseros rufescens Ananas comosus Antigonon leptopus Aptenia cordifolia Araucaria ...
In the Araucarian type of wood (Araucaria and Agathis) the bordered pits, which occur in two or three rows on the radial walls of the tracheids, are in mutual contact and polygonal in shape, ...
As trees age the mature foliage is distinctly different, looking more like that of the related Araucaria with leaves more yellow green, stiffer and held upright in 4 ranks.
Norfolk Island Pine (Araucaria heterophylla) is one of the relatively few conifers of the southern hemisphere. It's reportedly capable of attaining 200 feet in height, but in most tropical areas, seldom exceeds half that.
Mesozoic Era conifers included redwoods, yews, pines, the monkey puzzle tree (Araucaria), cypress, and Pseudofrenelopsis (a Cheirolepidiacean).
Monkey Puzzle (Araucaria araucana)
Black Walnut (Juglans nigra)
Bur Oak (Quercus macrocarpa)
Hybrid Planetrees/Sycamore (Platanus x hybrida)
Digger Pine (Pinus Sabiniana)
Eastern White Pine (Pinus strobus) ...
 See also: Pine, Apple, Green, Norfolk Island pine, Grape
  
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