Location: Royal Botanic Gardens. The wollemi pine is in fact no pine, but a member of the Araucariaceae family of plants. The genus was only known from fossil records until 1994 when some small stands were discovered in a remote gorge of the Wollemi National Park in the Blue Mountains.

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Tuesday 28 August 2012 by Martin Mergili in Australia and Oceania / Australia | New South Wales (2870 visits)