Accession Data
Wollemia nobilis
Common Name: Wollemi Pine
Family: Araucariaceae
Country of Origin: Australia - New South Wales
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
Accession Data
USDA Zone: 7-11
Accession #: 200600137
Accession Date: 2006-12-21 00:00:00
Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering
Location: 3110
Quantity: 1
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
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.
Classification
Division: Pinophyta
Class: Pinopsida
Subclass: Pinidae
Order: Araucariales
Family: Araucariaceae
Flowering Data:
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References
- Official Wollemi Pine website - last visited 21 DEC 2006
- Conifer Specialist Group 1998. Wollemia nobilis. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 05 February 2008.
- A GONDWANA CONNECTION? - The Wollemi Pine
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Accessed 13 February 2015.
- WCSP (2015). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Accessed 13 February 2015.
- 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.
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