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Araucaria heterophylla (synonym A. excelsa) is a species of conifer.As its vernacular name Norfolk Island pine (or Norfolk pine) implies, the tree is endemic to Norfolk Island, an external territory of Australia located in the Pacific Ocean between New Zealand and New Caledonia.
Norfolk Island pines have beautiful branches in a whorled pattern with soft, touchable foliage. In its natural habitat, it can reach up to 200 feet tall, but indoors, it maxes out at 6 to 10 feet ...
Norfolk Island Pine is a great alternative to a Christmas tree, but it can also thrive year-round as a beautiful indoor plant. Here's how to care for one.
Thankfully, when grown indoors, they don't get nearly that big. But Norfolk Island pines can still max out at 6 to 9 feet tall. At the holidays, Norfolk pines often are sold as living Christmas trees.
Araucaria columnaris is a distinctive narrowly conical tree growing up to 60 m (200 ft) tall in its native habit. The trees have a slender, spire-like crown. [3] The shape of young trees strongly resembles A. heterophylla.
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At Curio Bay, logs of a fossilized forest closely related to modern kauri and Norfolk pine can be seen that grew on Zealandia about 180 million years ago during the Jurassic period, before it split from Gondwana. [12] During glacial periods more of Zealandia becomes a terrestrial rather than a marine environment.
You can't legally plant one in south Florida and most people know better and wouldn't anyway. Almost every municipality here considers them a "nuisance." Norfolk Island pine, Australian salt pine and melaleuca were planted as wind breaks along roads and golf courses here many years ago but all are illegal to plant now.