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Araucaria columnaris
Also called New Caledonia pine, Cook's Pine, Cook Pine, Cook Island Pine, Cook's Araucaria, New Caledonian Pine, Columnar Araucaria
In Singapore: New Caledonia Pine, Cook Pine, Cook's Araucaria, 南洋彬 (Grown in Singapore)
Coral reef araucaria is a narrowly conical conifer tree from New Caledonia, reaching up to 60 m in the wild. It is widely grown as an ornamental and as a houseplant when young, and it needs warm, humid, frost-free conditions with bright light.
Araucaria columnaris, the coral reef araucaria, Cook pine (or Cook's pine), New Caledonia pine, Cook araucaria, or columnar araucaria, is a species of conifer in the family Araucariaceae.
The tree is endemic to New Caledonia in the Melanesia region of the Pacific.
Paraná-pine · Monkey-puzzle · Bunya · Moreton Bay pine · Norfolk Island Araucaria · Araucaria
[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Araucaria columnaris by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
