Blue Mountains Botanic Garden FloraBroadleaf Sugarbush (Protea eximia) Echium Pininana Gippsland Waratah (Telopea oreades) King Protea (Protea cynaroides) Leucospermum cuneiforme Little Prince (Protea cynaroides) Potberg Sugarbush (Protea aurea ssp potbergensis) Puya alpestris subsp zoellneri Tasmanian Waratah (Telopea truncata) Waratah (Telopea speciosissima) Waratah Hybrid (Telopea mongaensis x speciosissima) Wollemi Pine (Wollemia nobilis)
Discovered in 1994 by David Noble, a News South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service officer, who took a specimen of the tree to Mount Tomah Botanic Garden for identification. Since 1994 NSW NPWS and Royal Botanic Gardens staff have carried out research concerning its taxonomy, horticulture and ecology.
Source: The Royal Botanic Garden Sydney1
When it was first discovered, the Wollemi Pine was one of the world’s rarest plants, with only 38 known adult trees discovered growing in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales. The site of these original trees have been kept a close guarded secret, with work going on in the background of studying, cloning and growing new plants by scientists and now even the home gardener can have one to grow at home.
The Wollemi Pine occurs in a rainforest gully in south-eastern Australia wihtin Wollemi National Park. The only member of a genus discovered in 1994, it belongs to a conifer family that includes the genera Araucaria and Agathis.
Source: Blue Mountains Botanic Garden park signage
Family Araucariaceae
If you are visiting The Royal Botanic Garden Sydney, check out the Wollemi Pines that have been planted there.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Plantae
- Phylum: Tracheophyta
- Class: Pinopsida
- Order: Pinales
- Family: Araucariaceae
- Genus: Wollemia
- Species: Wollemia nobilis
Footnote & References
- The Royal Botanic Garden Sydney, https://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/
- Wollemi Pine (Wollemia nobilis), iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/49381-Wollemia-nobilis
- The legendary Wollemi Pine, NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service Blog, https://blog.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/the-legendary-wollemi-pine/
- Wollemia nobilis — Wollemi Pine, Species Profile and Threats Database, Australian Government, http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/publicspecies.pl?taxon_id=64545😊
Blue Mountains Botanic Garden FloraBroadleaf Sugarbush (Protea eximia) Echium Pininana Gippsland Waratah (Telopea oreades) King Protea (Protea cynaroides) Leucospermum cuneiforme Little Prince (Protea cynaroides) Potberg Sugarbush (Protea aurea ssp potbergensis) Puya alpestris subsp zoellneri Tasmanian Waratah (Telopea truncata) Waratah (Telopea speciosissima) Waratah Hybrid (Telopea mongaensis x speciosissima) Wollemi Pine (Wollemia nobilis)
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