Norfolk Pine

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The Norfolk Island Pine (Araucaria heterophylla), also known as the Norfolk Pine are one of the striking looking tree plantings along the northern beaches, seen from Manly, Dee Why, up to Palm Valley, Pittwater.

As the name implies, the tree is endemic to Norfolk Island, an external territory of Australia (located in the Pacific Ocean between New Zealand and New Caledonia). The Norfolk Pines are well suited to coastal locations because of their high tolerance to salt and wind and on the coastal mainland regions of Australia, have become an iconic species.

Norfolk Island pines are not true pines, they are members of a pre-historic family of conifers Araucariaceae, a diverse and widespread family of plants during the Jurassic and Cretaceous time periods.

Common name
Also known as a Polynesian Pine, Star Pine and Triangle Tree. With its symmetrical shape as a sapling, they have also been called a living Christmas Tree.

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Pinopsida
Order: Pinales
Family: Araucariaceae
Genus: Araucaria
Section: Eutacta
Species: Araucaria heterophylla

Footnote & References

Norfolk Island Pine (Araucaria heterophylla), iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/127890-Araucaria-heterophylla

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