Hoop Pine (IMAGE)

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Hoop Pine

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This is a hoop pine (Araucaria cunninghamii) on the Atherton Tablelands, Australia. Close relatives of this conifer tree inhabited Patagonia 52 million years ago, although molecular dates suggested the group is less than half that age.

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Peter Wilf

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