Wollemia nobilis

Wollemi pine, as it is commonly known, is a member of the araucaria or Araucariaceae family and is native to Wollemi National Park in New South Wales, Australia. It an evergreen and can reach up to 40 m tall; it is not a true pine, being neither in the Pinus genus nor the Pinaceae family.

• The tree coppices readily (sends up new shoots), so most have multiple trunks or appear in clumps. Branching is unique in that almost all side branches do not have further branching. New branches begin from dormant buds on the trunk.
• Leaves are flat, linear, 3–8 cm long and 2–5 mm broad, tapering to a point. They are arranged spirally on the shoot but are twisted at the base to appear in two or four flattened ranks.
• Male pollen cones are slender, conic, 5–11 cm long and 1–2 cm broad and reddish-brown in colour and are lower on the tree than the female seed cones which are green, 6–12 cm long and 5–10 cm in diameter. They disintegrate at maturity to release small and brown, thin seeds with papery wings around the edge.