Araucaria cunninghamii D.Don
Frost-tender evergreen conical or columnar tree with whorled branches with characteristic tufts of young shoots at the tips and sides, spirally-arranged, needle-like young leaves, crowded, overlapping mature leaves, and ovoid female cones, to 10cm long, with smaller, cylindrical male cones. To 50m. [RHSE, Hortus, FNSW].
Horticultural & Botanical History
Introduced to Britain before Araucaria bidwillii but I am unsure of the date. ‘Grows naturally in warm temperate riverine and costal rainforest or as a pioneer in subtropical forest, on poor soils from the Macleay River in N New South Wales to Townsville and offshore islands including New Guinea, occasionally close to the seashore. Widely grown in the nineteenth century in public parks and gardens; now rarely planted in SE Australia. […] The timber, grown in rainforest plantations in N New South Wales and S Queensland, is used mostly for plywood, but also for joinery, furniture and boat-building. More recently this species has been used experimentally for agroforestry.’ [HFSEA v.1 p.150].
History at Camden Park
Listed in all published catalogues [C.9/1843]. An iconic tree in the Camden Park garden with a number of mature specimens.
Notes
Published Jan 24, 2009 - 03:44 PM | Last updated Jul 14, 2010 - 02:34 PM
Araucaria cunninghamii D.Don | Camden Park gardens | George Thomas 2007
| Family | Araurcariaceae |
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| Category | |
| Region of origin | Eastern Australia |
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| Common Name | Hoop pine, Moreton Bay pine |
| Name in the Camden Park Record | Araucaria Cunninghamii - Moreton Bay pine |
| Confidence level | high |