Prehistoric Pines Coming To A Garden Near You

IOL ^ | 9-19-2003

[StatesEnemy]

Ornamental Kudzu

[LisaAnne]

You post the most interesting articles! Thanks. :o)

[EggsAckley]

I WANT one!!

[EggsAckley]

LOL!

[Saturnalia]

To prevent any Crevo discussion on this thread I hearby declare everyone present to be Nazis.
Now that we don't need to worry about that, I want one!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Where can I get one of these ?

[StriperSniper]

Prehistoric plant bump.

[blam]

Four Year Old Wollemi Pine

[EggsAckley]

COOL!

[bigfootbob]

Yippee!!! I've been waiting for this development for 8 years. I'm an extreme plant nut, and I have a spot in my botanical garden waiting for one of these pines. I have another extremely rare conifer from Australia, called Athrotaxus cupressides, or known in Australia as a whip cord cedar.

The Wollemi pine is unlike anything else in the pinus genus, very ornamental. These botanists will make a ton of money on this tree. I bet they'll get 5,000-10,000 per cutting, at least for the first couple of years. Then others like myself will have one, we'll pay our license fee and breed them like crazy and by 10 years from now the average Joe will be able to have one in their garden.

[blam]

I like my Bald Cypress, the only conifer that sheds it's needles in the winter time

[Verginius Rufus]

The dawn redwood (although thought to be extinct until rediscovered about 60 years ago) also loses its needles in the winter. Beautiful trees.

There are about 9,000 species of small dinosaurs still alive...they're called "birds."

[bigfootbob]

Great tree!! One of my alltime favorites. Actually, it is the first tree I learned as a kid. We had a stand of them on of corner of one of our soybean fields. I love their "knees".
There is another conifer species that looses its needles and you might like to check one out. Larix decidua or European Larch. There's a really cool form called L. Tortuosa which is a weeping sport. Also L. occidentalis, Western larch sheds its needles too

[Eala]

Ornamental Kudzu

I was thinking the same, but you put it well.

[WilliamWallace1999]

Dawn Redwood lovers bump. Yep, I have a 14 foot tall one in my yard that I grew from a 10 inch cutting. I thought the thing had died the first winter when all the leaves fell off after I had moved it outside.

[JOHANNES801]

Do they make good fire wood.

[southernnorthcarolina]

The pines could survive in hot or cold climates and would even suit apartment dwellers.

OK, I've gotta ask... If they were all that adaptable, why did they nearly become extinct? Maybe a parasite which itself has since become extinct? Interesting article!

[Consort]

The prehistoric pines will attract prehistoric arboreal creatures, which, in turn, will attract prehistoric carnivores/predators. Soon all the wombats, roos, wallabies, and platypusies will disappear.

[biggerten]

Tamaracks (sometimes referred to as Larches), are conifers that lose their needles in the wntertime. Come to Northern Wisconsin or Minnesota and I'll show you millions of them.