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Araucaria angustifolia trees play a pivotal role in shaping the landscape and fostering ecological diversity in southern Brazilian highlands. These conifers act as a facilitator species , also known as nurse trees , significantly increasing species richness and abundance of other trees beneath their crowns.
Araucariaceae is a family of conifers with three living genera, Araucaria, Agathis, and Wollemia.While the family's native distribution is now largely confined to the Southern Hemisphere, except for a few species of Agathis in Malesia, it was formerly widespread in the Northern Hemisphere during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
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.
Araucaria angustifolia, once widespread in Southern Brazil, is now a critically endangered species, protected by law. The prairies region of central Argentina, Uruguay and southern Brazil is known as the Pampas .
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Araucaria: monkey-puzzle trees; Araucaria angustifolia: Paraná pine Araucariaceae (monkey-puzzle family) Araucaria araucana: monkey-puzzle Araucariaceae (monkey-puzzle family) Araucaria bidwillii: bunya-bunya Araucariaceae (monkey-puzzle family) Araucaria columnaris: Cook pine Araucariaceae (monkey-puzzle family) Araucaria cunninghamii
Araucaria. Hoop pine (Araucaria cunninghamii) Monkey puzzle tree (Araucaria araucana) Paraná pine (Araucaria angustifolia) Cedar (Cedrus) Celery-top pine (Phyllocladus aspleniifolius) Cypress (Chamaecyparis, Cupressus, Taxodium) Arizona cypress (Cupressus arizonica) Bald cypress, southern cypress (Taxodium distichum) Alerce (Fitzroya cupressoides)
Candelabra tree can refer to: . Araucaria angustifolia, native to Brazil; Several species of Euphorbia, including: . Euphorbia ammak, native to Arabia and Yemen; Euphorbia candelabrum, native to eastern Africa