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Araucaria araucana, commonly called the monkey puzzle tree, monkey tail tree, piñonero, pewen or pehuen pine, is an evergreen tree growing to a trunk diameter of 1–1.5 m (3.3–4.9 ft) and a height of 30–40 m (98–131 ft).
Araucaria (/ æ r ɔː ˈ k ɛər i ə /; original pronunciation: [a.ɾawˈka.ɾja]) [2] is a genus of evergreen coniferous trees in the family Araucariaceae.While today they are largely confined to the Southern Hemisphere, during the Jurassic and Cretaceous they were globally distributed.
Monkey-puzzle trees are popularly grown as ornamental trees Sequoiadendron giganteum in the New Forest, Hampshire, England, one of the tallest in the UK at 51.5m [1]. William Lobb (1809 – 3 May 1864) was a British plant collector, employed by Veitch Nurseries of Exeter, who was responsible for introducing to commercial growers Britain Araucaria araucana (the monkey-puzzle tree) from Chile ...
Araucariaceae (monkey-puzzle family) Agathis robusta: Queensland kauri; smooth bark kauri; Dundathu pine Araucariaceae (monkey-puzzle family) Araucaria: monkey-puzzle trees; Araucaria angustifolia: Paraná pine Araucariaceae (monkey-puzzle family) Araucaria araucana: monkey-puzzle Araucariaceae (monkey-puzzle family) Araucaria bidwillii: bunya ...
Elizabeth Nickson is a Canadian writer and journalist. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, she was European bureau chief of Life magazine. [1]In 1994, Bloomsbury UK, Knopf Canada and Steidl published her novel The Monkey Puzzle Tree, an account of the CIA brainwashing trials in Montreal in the 1950s and 1960s.
Monkey Puzzle (band), an a cappella music group; The Monkey Puzzle, 2006; The Monkey Puzzle (The Saints album), 1981; Monkey Puzzle, Sia's vanity record label "Monkey Puzzle Tree", a song by Lucia Cifarelli from her 2003 album From the Land of Volcanos
The monkey and the coconuts is a mathematical puzzle in the field of Diophantine analysis that originated in a short story involving five sailors and a monkey on a desert island who divide up a pile of coconuts; the problem is to find the number of coconuts in the original pile (fractional coconuts not allowed). The problem is notorious for its ...
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Monkey Puzzle is a 2008 Australian film about several friends who get lost in the wilderness.