One of the more unusual trees growing in Redlands is the Araucaria bidwillii, commonly called the bunya-bunya tree or false monkey puzzle tree. This large evergreen coniferous tree is a member of one ...

Gubbi Gubbi elder Aunty Beverley Hand invites Jerry to attend the Bunya Dreaming gathering that she organises every summer on the Sunshine Coast - and she delivers a bunya cone for him as well, to ...

The Norfolk Island pine Araucaria heterophylla is a member of the Araucariaceae family - a family of plants that goes back in the fossil record to the Triassic period, some two hundred million years ...

Giant cannon ball-sized pine cones, which can weigh as much as 10 kilograms, are falling from trees across Sydney. While it sounds like the plot of a B-grade horror movie, it is actually just fruiting ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. The last thing I want to do is write a disparaging piece on Mother Nature – she seems to cop a lot ...

- Australian conifer bearing two-inch seeds tasting like roasted chestnuts; among the aborigines the tree is hereditary property protected by law ...

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