Araucaria excelsa seed
LATIN NAME: Araucaria excelsa
COMMON NAME: Norfolk Island Pine
The Norfolk Island pine is a handsome, upright, tall, evergreen conifer of the island coasts, and its fine, regular tiers of the horizontal branches with the fine, scale-like, soft-green leaves and its large, round, woody cones have made it a much-loved favourite of the indoor and the garden conifers. It grows as an upright, tall, evergreen conifer, reaching up to sixty metres or more in its island home, with the upright, tapering trunk bearing the fine, regular, horizontal tiers of the branches clothed in the fine, scale-like, soft-green leaves and, through the warm months, the large, round, woody cones of the many seeds. It is a species of the coniferous tree in the araucaria family, and it is native to the Norfolk Island of the south Pacific, while it is treasured for its fine, regular, tiered form, and it is known as the Norfolk Island pine.
In the araucaria family it is the tiered conifer of the south Pacific island, a species whose perfect, horizontal shelves of branches have made it a favourite of the warm gardens and the winter rooms.
Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology
The Norfolk Island pine appears in the island-ecology papers of the south Pacific, and the botanists have mapped its place in the araucaria family and the island flora of its native home. The conifer specialists have studied the fine, regular, tiered form and the large, round, woody cones, and the horticulturists have grown the elegant conifer as a much-loved favourite of the indoor plants and the warm-garden trees. It is a tree of the ancient, stately kind, and the growers of the conifers keep it in the front rank.
Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications
In the warm, frost-free garden, the Norfolk Island pine is the tiered conifer of the stately corner. Its woody cones feed the small creatures, the dense, evergreen crown gives shelter to the birds, and the regular, horizontal tiers give the garden a fine, formal presence. It has also become a beloved indoor tree and a Christmas tree of the warm lands, and it grows well in the moist, well-drained ground of the sunny, sheltered spot. Tiered, elegant and stately.
The small seeds sit deep inside the heavy, round cones — free them from the scales and sow them shallowly over the surface of pots of gritty, free-draining, lime-free soil, keep the pots moist in a bright, sheltered spot and never let them dry out, and the first fine shoots will appear in time.