Araucaria columnaris

Cook pine or New Caledonia pine is a member of the araucaria or Araucariaceae family and is native to New Caledonia in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, north of New Zealand. It grows up to 60 m tall.

The Cook pine can be confused with the Norfolk pine (A. heterophylla) due to some similarities in appearance. However, shape of Cook pine is much more narrowly conical, with a spire-like crown (note tree on the left in the first picture below).

• Branches are relatively short, horizontal, in whorls, with closely arranged cord-like horizontal branchlets with leaves less than 1 cm long, green, awl-like, spirally arranged. On older adults, leaves are more triangular, scale-like.
• Species is monoecious. Male pollen cones are numerous at the tips of branchlets, scaly, foxtail-shaped, 5 cm long; female seed cones are egg-shaped, spiny, 10–15 cm long, 7–11 cm wide.