Araucaria varieties

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Silver Gray Araucaria

Chilean Araucaria

Araucaria tenuifolia

bigleaf Araucaria

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You may be familiar with Araucaria. It is very common in parks, roadsides, and scenic spots. However, there are also many varieties of Araucaria. I wonder if you know what species you usually see. Let me start with Let me introduce to you the varieties of Araucaria.

Silver Gray Araucaria

Silver-gray Araucaria

Silver-gray Araucaria, as its name suggests, has silver-gray leaves. It is a weeping Araucaria with drooping branches.

Chilean Araucaria

Also called South American cedar, the height is about 30-50 cm. The leaves are lanceolate, with curved apex. They are densely grown on the upper part of the main branches, arranged in an imbricate shape, with a length of 5 cm. The leaves on the side branches are 2.5 cm long. Both sides are dark green in color, particularly similar to cryptomeria. The cones are upright and the balls are round or oval in the shape of a human head.

Araucaria tenuifolia

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Also known as Araucaria heterophylla, Norfolk Araucaria, and Araucaria tenuifolia in Guangdong, it is also called monkey cedar. It likes sun and is cold-resistant, with an upright trunk and horizontally extending branches in whorls. The leaves are diamond-shaped, slightly flattened on both sides, 7-18 mm in length, and sharp at the end.

The cones are nearly spherical in shape, and the apex of the bract scales is curved upward. It is native to Norfolk Island, Australia, and has been introduced in China.

Norfolk Araucaria is a good garden ornamental. It can be planted in the ground up to a height of more than 30 meters. It likes warmth and sunshine. It can tolerate high temperatures of 40℃ and low temperatures of minus 5℃. It can be grown in northern latitudes. Survive in the open air around 27℃.

Large-leaf Araucaria

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Also known as Tasmania cedar, cypress cedar, broad-leaved Araucaria, lanceolar Araucaria, tree, up to 50 meters high in its place of origin.

The bark is thick, dark gray-brown, the branches are flat, lateral branchlets are drooping, the branchlets are green, smooth and hairless.

The leaves are ovate-lanceolate, 18-35 mm long. The leaves on saplings and vegetative branches are longer than those on flowering and fruiting branches and old trees. They are sparsely arranged. The leaves in the middle of the branch are longer than those at both ends. The leaves are long and densely arranged at both ends of old trees and twigs.

The fruit is spherical, and the apex of the bract scales is triangular and curves backward. The apex of the seeds is enlarged, exposed, oval, and wingless on both sides.

Chilean Araucaria

Araucaria tenuifolia

bigleaf Araucaria

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