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Family: Araucariaceae	Genus: Araucaria	Species: Araucaria bidwillii Hook.

Habit	Leaf	Flower	Fruit	Bark

Synonym	Columbea bidwilli (Hook.) Carrière, Marywildea bidwillii (Hook.) A.V. Bobrov & Melikyan	Flower Color	Greenish
Common Name	Bunya pine	Flower Type	Solitary
English / Trade Name	Bunya pine	Flowering Period	Jan-March
Vernacular /Local Name		Fruiting Period	April-June
Altitude	Up to 1200m	Fruit Type	Follicle
Habit	Tree	Fruit Details	Seed cones ovoid-subglobose, weighing up to 10 kg, dark green. Bracts are oblong-elliptic or oblong-ovate, contains 50-100 seeds
Habitat	Drier rain forest	Bark Type	Fissured
Distribution	Native of Australia	Bark Details	The bark is dark brown to black, flaking in scales
Distribution in chandigarh	Chandigarh Botanical Garden and Nature Park, Sukhna Choe Reserve Forest & Sukhna Lake	Origin	Exotic
		Leaf Type	Compound
		Leaf Arrangement	Alternate (leaves born singly along stem)
		Leaf Shape	Lence shaped
Description of Species	Monoecious tree up to 50 m tall, crown becoming conspicously dome-shaped in the mature tree. Bark dark brown to black, flaking in scales, on mature trees deeply furrowed. Leaves in juvenile trees simple glossy, narrow, 2.5--5 cm long, and stiff with a sharp point and in mature trees arrayed radially around the branchlet (and often are overlapping), spreading, glossy, dark-green, lanceolate or triangular-ovate, flattened, coriaceous. Cones, usually appearing up to 20 cm long, axillary, weighing up to 10 kg, dark green. Bracts are oblong-elliptic or oblong-ovate, margin relatively thick, wingless, apex triangular, reflexed; seed scales thickened, exposed at apex, cone contains 50-100 seeds.	Leaf Details	Leaves in juvenile trees simple glossy, narrow, 2.5--5 cm long, and stiff with a sharp point and in mature trees arrayed radially around the branchlet (and often are overlapping), spreading, glossy, dark-green, lanceolate or triangular-ovate, flattened, coriaceous.

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