Recorded up to 89m tall in the wild (de Laubenfels, Flora Malesiana 10: 424, 1988), though this figure is not verified.

BTW, not a pine. Just Klinki.

Resin

Hi Eric,

Do you just have the one tree? No chance of getting seed one day?

Just curious. Thanks.

Looks as though related to bunya-bunya. After it blew over, what did the roots look like? Maybe it wasn't just the high wind velocity.

Hi Eric,

Nice to see it is still doing well. I have some seedlings here in Gainesville and will grow them in pots for a few more years...

Resin - Klinki pine is also commonly used to describe this species, especially in Australia (hence the use of 'pine' for an Araucaria, Hoop pine is another example).

bboy - It is very like A. bidwillii, but the leaves are typically noticeably larger and the cones are much smaller and very different than Bunya-bunya.

Hi Salicaceae,

Do you know a source of seed? I'm a big fan of Araucaria species.

Thanks!

Salicaceae, is that you Jason?

Yes, we just have the one tree. Purchased it around 2000 from Gondwanaland and it was expensive, wish I had got another before they closed.

It does resemble A, bidwillii and the leaflets are very sharp.

I didn't mean it to be a true pine, hence the hypen.

Eric
Orlando,FL

I like these. Sort of like A. Bidwillii but the shape seems just a little different and a lot more interesting for some reason. Can these be grown indoors like A. Bidwillii? I heard they're one of the fastest growing araucarias, so I assume that would be a restricting factor.

Resurrection of an old post..
It was dark and rainy, but since I had my camera with me, couldn't resist taking some shots of this beautiful Araucaria. I'm not sure but I think it's also a A. hunsteinii.
I'll try to get a decent daylight picture of the entire tree one day.
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Jim McAdam (Director of Forests in PNG) measured a tree at 306 feet prior to WW II. I was involved in measuring logs in 1958 and we got one tree that was 292 feet to a broken top (caused during the felling) and the top diameter was about 8 inches. Had we found the top (suspect it was caught up in the canopy) it would have exceeded 300 feet and probably beaten the 306 feet. Jim McAdam had offered a case of Black label whiskey to anyone who found a tree over 300 feet high. We dipped out.

Hi Guys!

Just came across your post during a web search.

I thought you might be interested in freshly collected Araucaria hunsteinii seeds. https://www.trebrown.com/

http://www.trebrown.com/plant_info.php?species=Araucaria+hunsteinii

Phil