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Accession Data:

Wollemia nobilis W.G.Jones , K.D.Hill & J.M.Allen

  • Common Name: Wollemi Pine
  • Family: Araucariaceae Henkel & Hochst.

  • Country of Origin: Australia - New South Wales
  • Habitat: along small permanent stream at the bottom of a narrow sandstone canyon

  • Description: Previously known only from the Mesozoic fossil record, the Wollemi Pine was rediscovered growing in a remote rainforest gorge in the Blue Mountains approximately 200km west of Sydney, Australia in 1994 by NSW park officer David Noble.

    Current wild population numbers fewer than 100 specimens with the largest being approximately 40m tall.

    Listed as Critically Endangered by the IUCN Red List

  • Culture: Fast growing in good light, favours loose acid soils, and temperatures from - 5 to 45C (23 to 113F). They are light feeders and in particular should not recieve heavy phosphorous - a fertilzer ratio of 5-1-5 is recommended.
  • USDA Zone: 7-11

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 200600137
  • Source: via National Geographic Society
  • Provenance:
    acquired via National Geographic Society North American Plant Distribution/Sale - Fall 2006. 
    North American Collection #04965 & #04972 
    
    12APR2012 - Plant #04972 donated to Binghamton University
    
  • Accession Date: 12-21-2006
  • Bench: 3110 - EVO: Tropical Conifers & Ginkgo
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 1 confirmed on 11-29-2024
  • Restrictions:
    • IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered Species

Classification:

  • Division: Pinophyta
  • Class: Pinopsida
  • SubClass: Pinidae
  • Order: Araucariales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Araucariaceae
  • SubFamily:
  • Tribe:
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Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019

References (internal):

  • Gymnosperms & Gnetophytes
  • IUCN Redlist Critically Endangered Species
  • Scavenger Hunt - Grades 9-12
  • The Human Epoch; Living in the Anthropocene
  • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: New South Wales

References (external):

  1. Official Wollemi Pine website - last visited 21 DEC 2006
  2. Conifer Specialist Group 1998. Wollemia nobilis. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 05 February 2008.
  3. A GONDWANA CONNECTION? - The Wollemi Pine
  4. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Accessed 13 February 2015.
  5. WCSP (2015). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Accessed 13 February 2015.
  6. Image #00 (cropped) and #02 (original) by Akerbeltz (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons. Last accessed on Friday, July 21, 2017.

data regenerated on Fri, 29 Nov 2024 11:51:46 -0500 [bcm v4.0]

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Wollemia nobilis

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Current Accessions in the Araucariaceae

  • Agathis moorei
  • Agathis robusta
  • Araucaria araucana
  • Araucaria cunninghamii
  • Araucaria heterophylla
  • Araucaria hunsteinii
  • Araucaria nemorosa
  • Wollemia nobilis
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