Chandigarh Forest Flora
A Comprehensive Database of Ligneous Plants of Chandigarh (India)
Designed & Developed by Bioinformatics Centre, Forest Research Institute, Dehradun
| Family: Araucariaceae | Genus: Araucaria | Species: Araucaria cunninghamii Mudie |
Habit |
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Flower |
Fruit |
Bark |
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| Synonym | Araucaria cunninghamii f. glauca (Endl.) F.M.Bailey | Flower Color | Greenish |
| Common Name | Queensland Pine | Flower Type | Spikelet |
| English / Trade Name | Moreton Bay Pine; Rocket Tree; Richmond River Pine; Queensland Pine; Pine, Richmond River; Pine, Queensland; Pine, Moreton Bay; Pine, Dorrigo; Pine, Hoop; Hoop Pine; Dorrigo Pine; Colonial Pine; Pine, Colonial | Flowering Period | July-Sept |
| Vernacular /Local Name | Fruiting Period | Oct-Dec | |
| Altitude | 0-1000m | Fruit Type | Follicle |
| Habit | Tree | Fruit Details | Cone green, covered with short spines, deflexed; seed in the form of ovulate cone scales, more or less flat, woody. |
| Habitat | Occurs in isolated remnant pockets or in fairly dense stands on ridges. | Bark Type | Rugged |
| Distribution | Native to Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea | Bark Details | Outer bark dark plum, redbrown or grey, rough, peeling off around circumference in stringy papery |
| Distribution in chandigarh | Chandigarh Botanical Garden and Nature Park | Origin | Exotic |
| Leaf Type | Needle-like | ||
| Leaf Arrangement | Alternate (leaves born singly along stem) | ||
| Leaf Shape | Lence shaped | ||
| Description of Species | Unbuttressed, symmetrical tree up to 50-70 m high; crown pyramidal to flat; branches in whorls of up to 6, more or less horizontal, with 2nd- to 5th-order branchlets; outer bark dark plum, redbrown or grey. Leaves crowded in overlapping whorls narrow to broadly triangular, slightly curved,. Monoecious; male strobili usually borne on lower and mid-crown branches, terminal, green, yellow at young and becoming red-brown when mature. Cone green, ovoid; seed in the form of ovulate cone scales, more or less flat, woody, triangular, with 2 thin wings, indehiscent scale. | Leaf Details | Leaves crowded in overlapping whorls narrow to broadly triangular, slightly curved |
