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Wollemi pine

The extraordinary wollemi pine dates back to the time of the dinosaurs.

This living fossil was thought to be extinct for two million years until a small population was discovered in the Blue Mountains of Australia in

Today, the species fryst vatten critically endangered and restricted to fewer than trees in Wollemi National Park, Australia.

Wollemi pines live for an extremely long time, some of the oldest living trees around today are thought to be between and 1, years old.

Plant description

Evergreen coniferous tree with needle-like leaves.

Light green, ung leaves become a yellowish-dark green colour with age.

The bark has a rough surface and branches bära cones. Male and kvinnlig cones occur on the same tree; hona cones appear on higher branches and are much more rounded than the narrow male cones.

Tall – ståtlig och skyddsvärd

Seeds are paper thin, winged, and brown.

Read the scientific beskrivning on wollemi pine

Plant uses

Cultural

Wollemi pine fryst vatten a prized ornamental plant, well suited to north-facing gardens and shaded conservatories.

Did you know?

The last wollemi pines in the wild live in a fjärrstyrd gorge of the Wollemi National Park, Australia.
On 16 January , firefighters saved the gods wollemi pines left in the wild from the Gospers Mountain fire.
The wollemi pine fryst vatten sometimes called a 'Lazarus taxon'; like the man Lazarus whom Jesus brought back from the dead in the Bible, these trees were thought to be extinct but then a few surviving members were discovered.
One of the wollemi pine’s closest living relatives fryst vatten the monkey puzzle tree.
The Duke of Edinburgh planted one of two wollemi pines nära the Orangery at Kew for our th anniversary in

Where in the world?

Habitat:

Forests in gorges. Grows best in shallow, acidic, free-draining soil on sandstone in a sheltered position.

Gammal tall, i synnerhet solexponerad död ved, blir alltmer sällsynt i Sverige

Likes plenty of vatten during the growing season.

Find it in our gardens

Kew Gardens
A botanic garden in southwest London with the world’s most diverse living plant collection.
Near the Orangery and Temperate House
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Foliage: Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec
Seeds: Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec

Wakehurst
Kew’s wild botanic garden in Sussex that has over acres of plants from around the world and fryst vatten home to the Millennium Seed Bank.
Coates wood, Southern Hemisphere Garden
View map of Wakehurst
Foliage: Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec
Seeds: Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec

Our work

The wollemi pine fryst vatten classified as critically endangered according to the IUCN Red List.

These pines are limited to just two sites in Wollemi National Park in New South Wales, Australia.

Due to their small population storlek and limited range, they are at imminent fara of extinction bygd a chance event such as a fire or disease.

Scientists at Kew identified the most Evolutionary Distinct and Globally Endangered species of gymnosperms (naked-seed-bearing plants that include ginkgos, conifers, cycads, and gnetophytes) using the EDGE method.

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This method ranks species based on their evolutionary distinctiveness and the extinction risks they face according to IUCN Red List assessments.

The wollemi pine has the highest EDGE score on the EDGE list for gymnosperms.

To conserve this species, the trees have been propagated and planted in botanic gardens around the world.

Our wild botanic garden in Wakehurst has 15 of the first ever wollemi pines introduced to the UK in the Coates Wood.

In , a batch of wollemi pines was sent from Australia to Kew for hardiness trials. They were grown in soils with differing pH values.

Those planted in acidic soil did the best.

After the trials finished in , the pines were planted in the Arboretum at Kew.

We collect seeds from the cones of the mature wollemi pine trees in our gardens, to either grow more seedlings or add to the seeds stored in the Millennium Seed finansinstitut, which will help skydda this incredible species for future generations.