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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.
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.
Flag. Pehuenche (or Pewenche) are an indigenous people of South America.They live in the Andes, primarily in present-day south central Chile and adjacent Argentina.Their name derives from their dependence for food on the seeds of the Araucaria araucana or monkey-puzzle tree (pehuen or pewen in Mapudungun). [1]
The hybrid Araucaria angustifolia × araucana is thought to have first arisen "in a plantation forestry environment in Argentina sometime in the late 19th or early 20th century". [19] It is thus not a natural hybrid as there are more than 1000 km between the natural stands of the two species.
The loggers exploited the lush forests of monkey-puzzle (Araucaria araucana) trees, thus depriving the Pehuenche of one of their most important foods and sources of income, the pine nuts produced in abundance by the araucaria trees. [4] The araucaria is an endangered species due to logging, forest fires, and grazing. [5]
Origin. Jet is a product of decomposition of wood from millions of years ago, commonly the wood of trees of the family Araucariaceae. [5] ... (Araucaria araucana). [13]
Araucaria araucana – the monkey puzzle tree (as well as other extant Araucaria species) Metasequoia – dawn redwood (Cupressaceae; related to Sequoia and Sequoiadendron) Sciadopitys – a unique conifer endemic to Japan known in the fossil record for about 230 million years. Taiwania cryptomerioides – one of the largest tree species in Asia.