Wollemia

In both botanical and popular literature the tree has been almost universally dubbed the Wollemi Pine, although it is not a true pine nor a member of the pine family , but rather is related to Agathis and Araucaria in the family Araucariaceae. The oldest fossil of the Wollemi tree has been dated to 200 million years ago.

Wollemia nobilis W.G.Jones, K.D.Hill & J.M.Allen Wollemia is a genus of coniferous tree in the family Araucariaceae. The Australian species Wollemia nobilis is the sole species in the genus Wollemia and was discovered in 1994 in a remote series of narrow, steep-sided sandstone gorges near Lithgow in temperate rainforest wilderness area of the Wollemi National Park in New South Wales, 150 kilometres north-west of Sydney. More

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