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#ThreatenedSpeciesDay #WollemiPine #auspol
Literally plotting where to establish a few on the property.

Time to get these babies ready for sprouting. #WollemiPine #RarePlant

Last Boost: I remember reading about the #WollemiPine years ago, when news of its rediscovery was starting to reach beyond Australia. I think there was a company that was importing the cultivated ones to the US for sale and I wanted one so bad. I don't really have anywhere suitable to growing a tree, but it's still cool to think that it went from presumed extinct to having its population rebuilt through cultivation.

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Hi Sarah, what an extraordinarily wonderful #WollemiPine (well, they all are aren’t they but I hadn’t seen or heard of them down here). You refer to your particular microclimate, I wonder how it would compare to ours - the very southern reaches of the Huon River, north facing, rare frosts, rarer snow (which doesn’t hang around),generally protected from the wind by hills and large trees?
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This tree, which was here when we moved into our #Tasmanian property, is a #WollemiPine
Until 1994 the Wollemia nobilis was only known through fossils, when a park ranger discovered a very small population - less than 100 trees - living well hidden in a NSW canyon. That remains the only known wild population of these critically #endangered prehistoric trees, but these have since been cultivated for home growing.
Our Wollemi pine has never been watered, fed, or in any way tended to, over the past 9 yrs, yet it’s thrived in our particular microclimate. Masses of female cones this year!

This tree, which was here when we moved into our #Tasmanian property, is a #WollemiPine
Until 1994 the Wollemia nobilis was only known through fossils, when a park ranger discovered a very small population - less than 100 trees - living well hidden in a NSW canyon. That remains the only known wild population of these critically #endangered prehistoric trees, but these have since been cultivated for home growing.
Our Wollemi pine has never been watered, fed, or in any way tended to over the past 9 yrs, yet it’s thrived in our particular microclimate. Masses of female cones this year!