Araucaria bidwillii

Bunya pine or bunya-bunya is a member of the araucaria or Araucariaceae family and is native to south-east Queensland in Australia, with two small populations in north eastern Queensland. It grows up to 45 m tall.

• Crown is pyramidal in younger trees, becoming conspicuously dome-shaped in the mature trees; branches are produced in regular whorls.
• Leaves on juvenile trees and in the forest understory are glossy, light-green and narrow, 2.5–5 cm long, and stiff with a sharp point, arranged in two rows on the branchlets. On mature trees or in exposed sun, they are arranged radially around the branchlets and are glossy, dark-green, 0.7–2.8 cm long, lanceolate or triangular-ovate, flattened, lacking a mid-vein but with numerous, parallel, thin veins.
• Pollen cones, appear in April and mature in September to October, being up to 20 cm long, solitary and cylindric on the ends of short lateral branches.
• Seed cones are 20–35 cm in diameter, dark green, and can weigh as much as 18 kg. They are opened by large birds, such as cockatoos, or disintegrate when mature to release the large 3–4 cm seeds or nuts which are valued as a food source.
• Bark is dark brown to black, flaking in scales up to 2.5 × 7.5 cm in size; on mature trees it is 5–10 cm thick, deeply furrowed.