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Wollemi pine tree
I live in the Blue Mountains of New South Wollemi? A pine?
Wales, Australia. I was presumed extinct until
a man called David Noble discovered me in I am called a pine but
I am a tall coniferous
1994. My name is Wollemi pine. tree. I have many trunks
and they bear numerous
Bio Height: 2 stems of different sizes.
My bark has a bumpy
0 m; Life surface, and I am told
cle: p it looks like Chocos, the
erennial breakfast cereal. I have
cy wonderful, glossy, fine,
and fern-like leaves.
5–4
Blast from
the past
This living fossil is the
sole surviving member of
an ancient group called
Wollemia dating back to the
time of the dinosaurs,
150 million years ago.
12–13
I live in the Blue Mountains of New South Wollemi? A pine?
Wales, Australia. I was presumed extinct until
a man called David Noble discovered me in I am called a pine but
I am a tall coniferous
1994. My name is Wollemi pine. tree. I have many trunks
and they bear numerous
Bio Height: 2 stems of different sizes.
My bark has a bumpy
0 m; Life surface, and I am told
cle: p it looks like Chocos, the
erennial breakfast cereal. I have
cy wonderful, glossy, fine,
and fern-like leaves.
5–4
Blast from
the past
This living fossil is the
sole surviving member of
an ancient group called
Wollemia dating back to the
time of the dinosaurs,
150 million years ago.
12–13
