Wollemi Pine
Wollemia nobilis · Araucariaceae · 울레미소나무
How to spot it
The bubbly chocolate-colored bark and the coppicing habit, with several stems rising from the base, are clear identifying marks.
Look
- Leaves
- Leaves on the main shoot are narrow triangles (3-10 mm) in 5-8 spiral rows, sharply pointed. Leaves on young side shoots are linear to narrow triangles (2-8 cm) in two rows, grayish white beneath; those on adult side shoots are narrow oblong, leathery (1-4 cm long, 4-8 mm wide) in four vertical rows, pale to medium green.
- Flowers
- A cone-bearing conifer; male cones reach 10.9 cm long and 19 mm across, and female cones are 5-8 cm long.
- Fruit
- Seeds are light brown and 4-6 mm wide including the wing.
- Bark
- Bark is chocolate brown with a distinctive bubbly texture.
Where it grows
- Native to
- Found only in deep, shaded sandstone gorges (670-780 m elevation) of Wollemi National Park, New South Wales, 200 km northwest of Sydney.
- Ecology
- Only about 40 mature trees and about 200 young trees remain in the wild; since its discovery in 1994 it has been listed as endangered under Australia's EPBC Act.
Sources
- 국립수목원 국가표준식물목록(KPNI 웹 조회)
- Australian National Botanic Gardens Growing Native Plants — Wollemia nobilis
- Botanic Gardens of Sydney — Growing Wollemi Pines
- PlantNET NSW Flora Online (시드니 왕립식물원): Wollemia nobilis
- The Gymnosperm Database: Wollemia nobilis
- NPR, Laurel Wamsley, 'Aussie Firefighters Save World's Only Groves Of Prehistoric Wollemi Pines' (2020-01-16)