Norfolk Island Pine
Araucaria heterophylla · Araucariaceae · 아라우카리아 헤테로필라
How to spot it
Horizontal branches whorl symmetrically in tiers around a straight single trunk, and young leaves curve inward and overlap.
Look
- Leaves
- Awl-shaped leaves are densely spiraled and curve inward.
- Flowers
- Instead of flowers it bears pollen cones and seed cones; the seed cones are round with spiny points.
- Fruit
- Mature seed cones release seeds, which are food for small mammals.
- Bark
- Rough, dark brown bark.
Where it grows
- Native to
- Norfolk Island, South Pacific.
- Ecology
- Endemic to Norfolk Island, and becomes a large tree outdoors.