Discovered in 1994, in a remote gorge in Wollemi National Park, Wollemia nobilis is one of the world’s most ancient and rarest trees, representing the only remaining member of a prehistoric genus, and is often described as a ‘living fossil’. Its population comprises approximately 80 mature individuals and about 300 seedlings, found at three sites across the Park, and within 200 kilometres of Sydney.
The Wollemi pine is monoecious, and produces male and female cones on the same tree. The cones begin to be produced on the tips of separate branches when trees are more than ten years, although this varies much depending on growing conditions. The long male cones produce the pollen and the spherical female cones bear seeds.
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