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VEDo you grow a Wollemi pine, the dinosaur tree?
This stand of Wollemi pines at the Blue Mountains Botanic garden are now turning 30 years.
Discovered in a remote canyon in a National within the Blue Mountains of NSW,Australia.
They are a species that have evolved with our changing climate,fossil records date them back to 200 million years old.. surviving an ice age and a drying climate. They were here before flowering plants, insects, mammals or birds.. it was a land mass of Gondwanna, a land of ancient pine…
The surviving trees some as old as 2 thousand years old, they grow multi-branched from the base and can with stand fire from where they regenerate from epic comic buds and regrowth has been seen from the sides and tips. This was observed after the 2019 bushfires.
Now in home gardens, parks from the coast to the mountains. Plants were sent world wide to the UK,USA,Asia,Europe.
And yes I planted one of the first trees with David Nobil’s mother,the man who accidentally discovered the tree while canyoning.
They like to grow in full sun with an easterly aspect away from western sun and winds..
Visit Mt Tomah Botanic Gardens.. it’s a beaut garden and so botanically rich.. @bluemountainsbg @botanicsydney @kewgardens @royalbotanicgardensvic @rbgedinburgh @laarboretum @#aucaria #wollemipine #plantatree #wollemianobilis
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