Araucaria Araucana Conifer Leaf Picture
Botanical Name: Araucaria araucana.Common Name: Monkey Puzzle.
Description of the Araucaria araucana tree photograph: A close-up picture of the leaf of a monkey puzzle, it is quite spiney.
Information about the Araucaria araucana tree: The Monkey Puzzle tree is a medium to large conifer, its appearance is quite unique, the branches are spidery and the leaves are dark green, quite rigid, overlapping and have a spine tip. The globular cones which take three years to achieve maturity are about eleven - eighteen cm long. The Monkey Puzzle conifer was planted extensively during Victorian times. Origin Chile and Argentina.
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A colourful photograph of an Araucaria araucana - The common name for this tree is Monkey Puzzle.
- A tree, such as an Araucaria araucana, is defined as any perennial woody plant of considerable size, (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.
- The parts of a tree are the roots, the trunk, the branch, the twig and the leaf.
- Conifers are cone-bearing seed plants examples of conifers include cedars, douglas-firs, cypresses, firs, junipers, larches, pines, redwoods, spruces, and yews.
- It is estimated that there are over of 100,000 tree species.
- A genus is a group of closely related species.
- The Latin word for the Monkey Puzzle tree is Araucaria araucana.
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