We Could Put The World's Rarest Tree In Your Back Yard

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[@AnnikaVictoria24]

I am from the area where it was discovered and it was SUCH a big deal while I was growing up! I now have one in my own garden 😊 loads of people around here do! It’s exciting to see it grown in other places around the world!

[@batmorrigan7616]

@@AnnikaVictoria24 I'm in the USA and I would love to have one!

[@okatooo]

@@batmorrigan7616 Currently you can probably get bunya pine, or norfolk pine, which are from the same family, but not sure if you would call them dinosaur trees

[@SuCzar]

My neighbor has a bunya (California) and it was so rare in our area that he got on national news when I was in high school. People from all over the country contacted him asking for its giant pinecones ​@@okatooo

[@John-o5h4m]

Where do you get one?

[@Youtubeispoo-o6d]

Should champion the native species of your own countries. Many species struggling in their native ranges can become invasive when exported, and there's plenty of rare trees in every country. An example would be the American chestnut for mericans.

[@gordoncahill1170]

In 2020 the Woolemi Pine had its own group of fire bombing helicopters dedicated to its valley. They didn’t fight anywhere else for weeks. The Woolemi National Park is massive. Larger than Singapore. Over 2/3 of it was burnt making it one of the largest fires ever recorded. And we should note we started the domestic program over 20 years ago. There are thousands of *domestic* Wollemi Pines in backyards across Australia. You can order one at the largest home improvement chain.

[@hiatusinc]

Bunnings?!

[@labellaflora....]

Will the horticultural 'version' of the tree also spread by self-cloning like in the wild?

[@Murglie]

​@@labellaflora.... Maybe, but not for a long time, 20 years is incredibly young for a woolemi, they can live for thousands of years

[@joshyoung1440]

I don't think the term is "fire bombing," that's something else haha

[@joshyoung1440]

​@@labellaflora.... yes, because that's the only surviving reproductive strategy, did you watch the whole video? He explains it pretty well...

[@doctorcis3510]

Cloning and making them common is genius, it would completely eliminate any poaching demand.

[@batmorrigan7616]

seriously, like i dont want a poached tree

[@MaokiDLuffy]

​@@batmorrigan7616probably worse than poached eggs

[@batmorrigan7616]

@@MaokiDLuffy definitely worse than poached eggs, unless it's not the food and it's eggs stolen from an endangered species

[@winstonelston5743]

Fine for its native range, but it could be a dangerous invasive nuisance species.

[@gasparg643]

@@batmorrigan7616poached poached eggs

[@grandmothergoose]

I've got one growing in my front yard. It's the centrepiece of my front garden. It needs a bit more water than the rest of my garden with one exception, but it's worth it. The exception is an almost as ancient and also endangered Daintree Pine. I live on the edge of an Aussie outback desert town and my front garden is a microclimate of zonal denial.

[@MrsAp425]

Zonal denial! Nice.

[@InterNutter]

Every Australian in your audience: "Wol-um-EYE!"

[@ShirinRose]

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[@sandrosliske]

So glad you said it. I was fighting so hard to not say anything.

[@Murglie]

fr what happened with the research on this one? They also pointed to the wrong part of Australia on the map

[@litterbox2010]

@@Murglie We told them to do that ;)

[@spud4242]

Absolutely!!!!

[@armstrongro]

You can already buy them from specialist nurseries in Australia, but they are quite expensive, A$99 for a 6" pot, upto A$1,800 for a 18" pot.

[@BackYardScience2000]

Is that AUD or USD?

[@armstrongro]

@@BackYardScience2000 I deliberately put A$ in the price to avoid confusion.

[@MaxwellSchmalzried]

I’m waiting til they’re 99 at a local shop in the states, but I want one!

[@BackYardScience2000]

​​@@armstrongroah ok, I didn't see that at first. Thank you for pointing it out! I recently had surgery and the meds have me a bit scatter brained. My apologies. Also, for those who don't know, 1USD = 1.54 AUD. So 100 USD is about 154 AUD.

[@The_Savage_Wombat]

@@BackYardScience2000 I was just going to look up the exchange rate, thinking it was something like 100 to 1 or so. Thanks for the info.

[@ludwigiapilosa508]

Just to be clear, Phytophthora, aka water molds are NOT fungus. They are oomycetes that have converged with fungi in many ways but are definitely distinct.

[@batmorrigan7616]

@@ludwigiapilosa508 so antifungal things probably wouldn't work then I'm assuming, do you know if there are any lil critters that specialise in eating them?

[@davidgrowsdragonfruit5301]

Thank you! correct, not a fungus. Big problem for many natives, and easily spread by water and mud on shoes, feet, and especially feral animals like pigs. Avocado trees are very susceptible to phytophthora, and once the soil in an orchard is contaminated, it is virtually impossible to grow healthy trees again. The two options for chemical control of phytopthora are phosphorous-acid and Ritomil. Both help somewhat, but neither very much

[@LaughterOnWater]

Also: horticulturist, rather than horticulturalist.

[@fruitoftheanus]

​@LaughterOnWater I work in horticulture, and I hear coworkers say horticulturalist quite often. It drives me nuts lol but I'm trying to be less of a pedant these days

[@Nozinbonsai]

​@@batmorrigan7616 primitive conifers root structure can't take clay soil due to its movement with moisture variations and its adhesion to the roots, like sciadopitys verticillata, they need an alluvial or organic mountain soil..

[@Platyperosn]

There’s a Wollemi pine in the gardens of Blarney Castle in Ireland! I was so excited to see it :)

[@omnizoom]

So it’s cold hardy then a bit? Could survive in Canada maybe?

[@Sarragota]

@@omnizoom Ireland doesn't get too cold, severe frosts are very rare. They planted a specimen of about 4 meters out in the botanical garden of Vienna last year, but its in a very sheltered spot between two walls. To my knowledge Austria is the coldest country with a Wollemi planted out. It is the first specimen outside of Australia after the ones send to the UK, so it must be close to 30 years old, It's impossible to get a plant that big as well. But I would imagine that no-one has actually limit tested their hardiness yet, so who knows... I would still bring it inside in winter...

[@JM0X-007]

Ive got 3 in pots in my backyard, they grow in such a cool and unique way. A little expensive but worth it.

[@batmorrigan7616]

@@JM0X-007 I would love one oml, but I live in the USA and they don't currently ship out of Australia

[@veryberry39]

@@batmorrigan7616 That was what I was coming to the comments to find out. lol

[@lashadi1445]

Can we really not get them in the US?? Be still my beating heart, I legit have been looking into those. I thought they did?

[@batmorrigan7616]

@lashadi1445 we probably can but the office conservation website that sells clones doesn't ship out of Australia yet, I'm sure there are other people who sell clones they grew, I just looked at the office website so the money would go to helping them.

[@DES.REVER.DESIGNS]

​@@lashadi1445I'm sure you can... you can get water delivered to the desert if you got enough money.

[@CorbiniteVids]

Same thing happened with Dawn Redwoods. They (or a similar species) were known only from fossils for a long time until a surviving grove of them was discovered in China. But now they're available for retail pretty widely

[@dwesdwes5633]

Dawn Redwoods are way more attractive then the Wollemi Pines which are kind of reminiscent of both Podocarpus and Araucaria.

[@cedarwaxwing3509]

Ditto Ginkgos.

[@CorbiniteVids]

@@cedarwaxwing3509 how could I forget ginkgos

[@cedarwaxwing3509]

@@CorbiniteVids Just wanted to make sure they (the Ginkgos) got included in the “fossil tree” discussion! 🙂 I planted a Dawn Redwood in front of the first house I bought 42 years ago in Western Kentucky. The last time I drove by there, the tree was still alive and thriving and was probably 50 feet tall. I am now retired and living in Iowa and thought I might like to plant one (Dawn Redwood) again up here, but I haven’t done any research on their cold-hardiness. I have seen bald-cypress around here, but am not sure if Taxodium and Metasequoia are similarly cold hardy.

[@timmillan6701]

@@dwesdwes5633Attractive is subjective. Metasequoia is certainly a a hardier more widely adapted tree. I am a big fan of both and I grow both

[@songbirdrosa]

I bought one for my Mum's 60th birthday earlier this year! It even came with a certificate of authenticity and a full care book.

[@aowen7777]

Whoa cool! Where did you buy it from?

[@CorneeLiz]

@@aowen7777there are licensed nursery’s around Australia.

[@HisameArtwork]

that's so cool , I want one too! makes me wonder what native i should save here in ast europe.

[@meikahidenori]

Yes. Because they're actually asking people to record how these trees go and if they are surviving outside of the park so they can fund a safe place for another insurance population. As someone who lives in Australia that sounds like a cool science program to be part of. You might not get them outside of Australia however as our import/export laws on things are quite strict - however some of these plants HAVE been gifted to priministers & presidents internationally in previous years.

[@spiralpython1989]

There’s a large botanic garden in England with a significant arboretum of these trees, acting as a safeguard population and also producing clones for wider distribution.

[@timmillan6701]

They are available at retail nurseries in the US now

[@willbilly8738]

I got a couple here in Texas

[@MomAndBabyCareHazel24]

01:24 "The discovery of the Wollemi pine really does feel like the 'coelacanth of trees'! To think these living fossils were quietly persisting while we believed they were long gone is both humbling and thrilling. Nature's resilience is awe-inspiring

[@sizanogreen9900]

Love looking at the Wollemies whenever at my local botanical garden/zoo. great vibes.

[@Cirwlos]

You can cross another jurassic forest of living fossil trees, in google street view. It's on route RP23, Neuquen, Argentina. It's a 200 million year old forest of Araucaria, a tree related to this one. There are also many on Pino Hachado, but they are mixed with more modern plants.

[@SweetChilliJesus]

I own one! Bought it from bunnings a few months ago and have been doting on it ever since.

[@sandrosliske]

I hope you have the space for it. Also keep in mind that they drop their pine cones.

[@SweetChilliJesus]

@sandrosliske according to the official care website for Wollemi Pines, while you can plant them, they will also grow quite happily in large pots, which is what I've got this one in. Don't quite have the space to let it grow into a 20ft tall tree 😅

[@planchetflaw]

Be the first to make a Wollemi Bonsai

[@DaisyLarson4936]

There are lots of places that have well established ones growing. The plant was rediscovered about 30 years ago and the Sydney botanical garden had one growing in a cage not long ago after.

[@LeviathantheMighty]

Hopefully, the cage is strong enough to contain it, he he he he.

[@OlessanYT]

Wollemi pines, my beloved. Things were a bit fraught during the bushfires a few years ago, with their glade specifically protected by the fireys.

[@michaelclement1337]

I’ve got one, had it for about 12 years. It was a seedling when I got it and it’s about 1.8 meters old now. Growing in a very large pot. It’s a unusual plant

[@oriain]

We have one growing in our garden in Ireland, it’s thriving!

[@fleachamberlain1905]

0:16 Not Wollemee, but Wolle-my (as in the word 'my'). An interesting video. I have had one living in a pot for around 20 years, named Wally, that I got shortly after they started propagating them. Might have been from the first batch. It was exciting to be a part of their conservation and it still is. I love my Wally.

[@rachaelnugent]

Thank you for bringing attention to this! I'm currently in the process of designing a native Australian garden and the Wollemi is on the list (they are very readily available where I am)

[@clusterfer]

As an Aussie: Wal-Ah-MY pine. Cos us Aussies are the best at pronunciation!

[@cottawalla]

It's an Australian aboriginal name, so yes, in this case we are.

[@msmyrk]

I just made a similar comment. It's like an ice pick through my head every time this one gets mispronounced.

[@robbudden]

Thank you It killed me

[@JackFrawley101]

Warlarmy piiyn

[@Fomites]

We Aussies. It's "we" 😊

[@DrGroo]

Nice to see the Wollemi getting its own video. I can see my 20 year old Wollemi (received as a house warming present) through the window as I watch this video. It's still under 3m tall. So, one for the patient horticulturalist.

[@AdnanKhan-be9dr]

I live in Sydney, and I hadn't heard much about these trees, let alone them being cloned and sold, since the discovery of them was first announced.

[@comfortablynumb9342]

The bonsai community would love to get ahold of those trees. In 20-30 years they could be really cool bonsai trees.

[@undisclosedperson3871]

People have done it - they have been widely available in Australia for a couple of decades now. My grandmother has one as bonsai, and it's her largest.

[@comfortablynumb9342]

@undisclosedperson3871 super cool!

[@seonaelizabethcoster8465]

I've always wanted one of these trees ever since they were discovered while i was in high school. I'm Australian, and it was HUGE news. When I studied biology in my year 11/ year 12 (1999-2000) they were in my text books, though only with basic info, as far as I can remember. My biology teacher was like a kid in a candy store when he was talking about them. I'm really glad that they've been able to propagate them for the domestic market. One of these days, I'll get one, and do my bit to keep the glorious Wollemi Pine alive.

[@murkyseb]

They already sell them at Bunnings in Australia

[@ethanwd]

We bought a Wollemi Pine for our Christmas tree a few years ago here on the other side of Aus from where they’re normally found. It was like $30 from our local garden centre! We don’t have space in our backyard to grow it outside of a pot, so are planning on ‘guerrilla gardening’ it into a nearby park/vacant block once it outgrows its pot…

[@gregedwards1087]

My parents had one in their garden nearly 20 years ago, now that they have passed my little sister has it at her place, and it is thriving. Mum and Dad bought it from one of their local garden centres in a project to increase the population of this rare plant, I am pretty sure that while it is still an endangered plant there are way more than "100" of them scattered in gardens all over Australia.

[@sandbridgekid4121]

That's 100s in the Wild.

[@gregedwards1087]

@@sandbridgekid4121, Did you take a course in Pedantry or have you been this way all of your fussy life?

[@anhedonicauthor]

Disappointed that the marker on the map in the thumbnail points to Victoria, when Wollemi National Park is in New South Wales. As a Victorian, I was excited for a moment.

[@illuminoeye_gaming]

victorian more like... lose-torian

[@anhedonicauthor]

@@illuminoeye_gaming😭😭😭😭😭

[@ianrobertson2282]

It shows the correct location just west of Sydney.

[@TavernCrawler]

*adds to notebook labeled "plants i need"*

[@phatmusic]

😂😂😂

[@planchetflaw]

Wollemis and Moon Trees.

[@WTH1812]

Perfect compliment for the strawberry trees and pawpaw patch. Still trying to find another cumquat tree for a spot near the deck.

[@X9523-z3v]

Pawpaws = bawls

[@WTH1812]

@ ... actually, at different times I had each of these.

[@kodywootton7472]

Wait we got strawberry bushes wtf

[@WTH1812]

@ ... Those are smaller than strawberry trees.

[@kodywootton7472]

@@WTH1812 yes but when was there ever strawberry trees wtf

[@Glaudge]

A lot of plants that are anachronistic that are still hanging on are plants that were really good at suckering and stump sprouting (e.g. Osage orange)

[@BooBaddyBig]

Reunite Gondwanaland! Think of the children!

[@merlapittman5034]

🤣

[@raythegardener]

Ooooh, my pet t-rex will love climbing it!

[@ericsmith6394]

Sci show: it's important for the location to stay secret. Also Sci show: giving clues like it's a game of where in the word is Carmen Sandiego.

[@thekaxmax]

All of what they said is open access knowledge

[@MorganHJackson]

You still won't find it. The people who did find it had to abseil in to the canyon, and it's a fairly remote area. It's not like there are roads going into it. They use helicopters to get people out there.

[@yt.personal.identification]

It's known. It was specifically protected during huge wildfires

[@sineadinglis799]

I was literally prying myself away from a sapling in the local nursery yesterday, because its off week for my pay period and I desperately wanted to own one. Went through all 5 stages of grief when I found it. 😢 I'm even working on altering my balcony to give it the right conditions to grow in, since I live on the top floor of an apartment complex so any plants I aquire are exposed to strong winds.

[@joshyoung1440]

4:55 I think a better description of evolution would be that transposons _did_ whittle away at the genome of sexually reproducing Wollemi pines, and the ones that survived are those that primarily reproduced through asexual propagation, rather than saying they "switched strategies." Lol it's always bugged me when descriptions of evolution make it sound like members of a species made changes to themselves, rather than how it actually works, which is, of course, natural selection. But that's mostly just an old personal chestnut- didn't take away from the quality of the content at all 😊

[@timmillan6701]

This tree is in fact available in the USA periodically. I bought one in a 2gallon pot at a retail nursery here in Washington state and paid about $230 for it. Unfortunately, I killed it, so I’m keeping my eyes open for another. I believe they were produced in BC Canada. In addition, there are several trees in the Puget Sound area including at Seattle Arboretum, The Bloedel Reserve on Bainbridge Island , The Rhododendron Species Garden (Federal Way)and several good size ( coning size) trees at The Point Defiance Zoo in Tacoma

[@JoshuaMcTackett]

You can already buy Wollemi pines all over Australia from nurseries. People who keep them in their gardens help preserve the species

[@vengefulenigma]

There has been one of these for a couple of years at the botanical garden Volčji potok in Slovenia. They keep it in a pot, so they can move it during the winter.

[@mal_ed]

It's called Woo-le-mai tree

[@c138599]

Wollem-"eye" pines are rare in the wild but have been available in garden nurseries for about 20 years. In Sydney today they are available in most large nurseries - but they are EXPENSIVE (I'm thinking $AUD65 for a 6" pot/12" tall) so that's why typically only larger businesses or boutiques can afford to stock them. Easy to find in Sydney, though. They don't like dryness and don't like wet feet. I'm NW Sydney (hotter and less rain than coastal fringe) and lost one - root rot - in a large pot that sat in a saucer and another that I had in the ground for 10 years that died after two successive dry summers of many 40+°C days.

[@msmyrk]

Australian here. Wollemi is normally pronounced with similar stress on the first and last sylable, and a long-i, as in "WOLL-m-EYE".

[@SirJasperKCMG]

FYI....It’s pronounced woll-e-“my” by the local australians...😮

[@maxmontauk7281]

I have three in pots in my office - they are easy to look after!

[@MenaceGallagher]

Wollum-eye not Woll-emmy. You're generally a pretty well researched show, and I'm sure you know how difficult Australian words can be so its surprising that you didn't check this beforehand?

[@maccamac9965]

I'm just glad he say emu. Seriously, yanks trying to pronounce any Aussie word is like nails on a chalkboard.😖

[@TheNightFlower]

Particularly disappointing that they didn’t even try to pronounce an indigenous word correctly. In a time when they’re struggling to have their lands returned to their original indigenous names and are facing political resistance.

[@jordanwilde9226]

I had the pleasure of seeing one of these pines in a beautiful public garden in Zagreb, Croatia. Its story is truly fascinating and it's neat to see Sci-Show discussing the plant only months later. I cannot wait to grow and own one of these on my property some day.

[@ezearo]

Two Australian videos in as many days!!! Kudos! Aussie Aussie Aussie

[@Ittiz]

I planted some functionally extinct critically endangered trees on my property. Unlike their native area where they have basically been completely extirpated from they seem to be doing ok in my area.

[@merlapittman5034]

It's a beautiful tree, too! Fascinating, the way some plants and animals manage to hang on!

[@fluroflash2803]

Why all this sudden traction for the wollemei? We've had them in Australia at nurseries and botanic gardens for so long

[@ianrobertson2282]

Yes since 2005.

[@arrluk8154]

“Wollemi pines probably shifted to cloning to limit the spread of harmful mutations” makes it sound like it was a conscious choice. Would it not be that the ones that reproduced asexually survived due to a lack of harmful mutations and the ones that reproduced sexually died out due to an accumulation of harmful mutations?

[@MyPetZombie84]

pet peeve of mine....science reporting ALWAYS does this...as if a mindless plant/animal is thinking of its genetic future.

[@EmonEconomist]

My science teachers used to tell us off for anthropomorphising for this exact reason!

[@Rufus2468]

I'm from Melbourne, Australia, and I did in fact buy one of these from my local garden store only a few weeks ago! It's in the backyard right now, loving life. My very own dinosaur tree.

[@maxhall2086]

We have these in the UK now. There are 15 locally to me at Kew gardens at Wakehurst place, a country house with hundreds of acres of gardens and forest. The UK also has a temperate climate and, believe it or not, is home to temperate rainforest. Hearing the trees home range has a similar climate type makes sense because the trees are positively thriving.

[@francescadulash3511]

I'm an Aussie & have so far gifted 3 people with these. It's a much nicer & enduring than cut flowers

[@ItsJustMeLogan]

I’m not so sure about the time line of this video because I’ve had one in a pot for a few years but my dad was given one when he retired from a horticulture job maybe 15 odd years ago ands it’s still growing strong in mums yard

[@ianrobertson2282]

They were released in 2005.

[@AroundTheBlockAgain]

They even look cool, like coelacanths look cool. Congratulations to all the Aussies who get the chance to raise one!

[@maciejgronowski]

Your info is YEARS OIT OF DATE! They do sell thise trees in the UK garden centers (more specialised ones) for years! They also grow in the UK botanical gardens for decades!

[@ianrobertson2282]

Yes. It was released in 2005.

[@nadyan9525]

I have a Wollemi Pine growing in a pot in my backyard :) Bought it at the local garden centre. It's such an awesome plant!

[@tonygorman9462]

I have a 20 year old Woolemi pine growning in my back yard, in Sydney, Australia, it is doing fine and is now over 3 metres tall.

[@matthewberry1738]

I’ve got 12 of them in my back yard. They’re all about 3 meters tall now, and thriving. Proud to have them. Most of them are a bit sticky…. But 4 in particular are growing very thick and bushy. 💪

[@juliemcglew8511]

Wollemi pine ( is pronounced Wollem "eye" by us Aussies. Every time he says Wollem ee it completely grates on my nerves). I have one in my backyard and it is a cherished dinosaur tree. I still remember when they were discovered. I was so happy to be finally able to buy one from Bunnings.

[@rhysplant8392]

When I left school, I worked at the only nursery that was allowed to propagate them. Never seen a nursery quite like it. 3m high electric fences no plant material in and out of the area to prevent smuggling seeds etc. Until it started to fail and could not find bulk buyers and then they were dumping thousands of them into a hole at an "undisclosed" location within the Toolara Foresty.

[@rosieposie1760]

Once this is available commercially it needs to be in the good store or on DFTBA.

[@ivytarablair]

genius! I'd totally order one 😊

[@ianrobertson2282]

They were released commercially in 2005.

[@TheNightFlower]

They have been commercially available for almost 20 years.

[@sesposit88]

I was doing a little research and found a video claiming these tree's are thriving in Britain.

[@TheNightFlower]

Yeah, I have family in Ireland who have one. Poorly researched article to be honest.

[@alden1132]

I want one! I'd take such good care of one!

[@Sthuont]

They don't exactly spread via cloning... I mean it's more just forming a clump of trunks... and it's all connected as the same original organism. It's more accurately called coppicing and reshooting. We humans have gone on to absolutely clone them extensively via agar tissue culture though. The actual true reproduction in the wild continues to be via seed, and with the trees being conifers, these seeds develop contained within cones. Seed grown Wollemi Pines are also cultivated extensively, which will also help increase their genetic diversity. Security populations have also been established in Botanic Gardens and other institutions around the world just in case a stochastic event occurs, and to educate the public around the world and let them experience and personally connect with a bit of the Cretaceous that very nearly slipped through our fingers. They've also established "wild" ex-situ populations within similar deep narrow sheer sandstone cliff sided stream canyons in other parts of Wollemi National Park, and I'd assume more extensively in the broader Greater Blue Mountains which is nearly all extensive kilometres thick sandstone rock strata recently uplifted and forming a heavily dissected plateau with huge western-USA style canyons, along with plenty of smaller deep narrow stream canyons, and also an endless labyrinth of slot canyons. In fact many of the narrow canyons probably have never been explored, that's actually how the Wollemi Pine was found in 1994 when David Noble was exploring remote canyons while working for the New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service.

[@OlessanYT]

One note: the tree's name is pronounced woll-am-eye, not woll-em-ee.

[@petermoller8337]

As above😊

[@Gregemio]

The factt hat they survived all the fires is crazy .

[@Murglie]

There was a whole firefighting team dedicated to just protecting their little pocket forest during the 2019/2020 bushfires, but the fire still got some of them

[@_andrewvia]

It's good to see Reid again. And Savannah is wearing my favorite shirt again too. Great video. Thanks!

[@Residentgoodygoody]

I actually saw one as a kid while visiting the UK. It was behind bars to keep tourists from messing with it, and I, wanting to be a paleontologist, thought it was the coolest thing ever. I also saw someone else mention the dawn redwood as another living fossil tree, which I have both seen in person, and have a fossil leaf from

[@samanthascott4774]

my local conservatory has one! It's so cool to watch it grow

[@JaredWyns]

I learned about these a couple months ago, I'm planning on ordering a few to get started here. I am near 'lost pines' in TX and the soil here would do well for them, hoping to repopulate in various places around the country for funsies

[@emersonlamond1024]

I've got one in my garden!! They do well if you give them a little mound and put azeala mix in the hole before planting:)

[@dwesdwes5633]

There are several in San Francisco in public gardens. They are generally not labeled, as their rarity and value makes them targets for theft. They are quite interesting morphologically, but if you aren't aware of them, you might just think they have been interestingly pruned. They are not as lovely as some other relic trees like the Dawn Redwood.

[@ellagrant6190]

I hope precautions against bush fires are being taken in the area. It would be a massive blow to have a fire sweep through the area. I know the Greens have prevented a lot of back burning and that has directly lead to large, uncontrollable fires we have had.

[@davidkettle9688]

Mi annan gardens which is located between campbelltown and nerellen south west of Sydney had a very big part in the introdution of it, to becoming a comursal tree.

[@vengefulvegan]

Yes you can buy one here in Canberra Australia at the Heritage Nursery. Not cheap, but if you’ve got a vacant largish spot in the garden why wouldn’t you.

[@Celeste-in-Oz]

These have been available in AU garden centres for quite a few years now 😉 They deliberately did that to eliminate incentive to poach them.

[@carlramirez6339]

Here is another very rare native conifer found only in a few spots about 100 km from the stands of the Wollemi Pine: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pherosphaera_fitzgeraldii

[@neens5015]

If you come to Sydney Australia, the Australian botanic garden in Mount Annan has a very impressive one on display!

[@DJCourt83]

I found one in the wild.... sort of, in Scotland, think the botanical garden had planted it but it wasn't labelled or marked as it's spices like the others in the ruins of an old pintum probably cos there valuable so i was impressed to be one of the few who would understand its significance

[@GardenUPLandscape]

Well, I definitely want one! You said it was nearly wiped out from lack of water. Exactly how much water do these trees need? Also what temperature do they tolerate? If they are native to Australia then I doubt they will do well in colder temperatures. I still want one. 😂

[@suemonckton7639]

They actually live in a cool climate ..it snows up here in Winter

[@GardenUPLandscape]

I just read up on them and it sounds like they need regular water, week drained soil, not wet or dry. They tolerate temps from -10*F - 95*F, so it's theoretically possible that they could grow in my area but both of our extremes are just past those limits for a few days. I also read that they can grow in pots. What is the risk of it escaping and becoming invasive in non-native climates?

[@stevenstart8728]

I've got one on our lawn at our farm in the wimmera region if Victoria. It's only two years old and we had three frosts of -6c this winter plus heaps of -3c and -4c which knocked hell out of it. It looks like it will recover slowly this summer.

[@AyaMoonlight1]

These trees have recently been planted in the front of the Natural History Museum in London. They are so cool 😊

[@isaaco5679]

I have a dawn redwood growing on our Iowan farm, and while not as old as these its still cool.

[@adiposerex5150]

It’s quite lovely. I prefer native trees, so I have a limber pine. It was passed over in the nursery, so I bought it. It is now gigantic.

[@morphoplasma]

So at my work(garden center/nursery), one of my boss ordered one for his home, but decided to plant it outside of one of the greenhouses for the fun of it....I live in Québec, Canada (zone 6a cad). Guess what? It survived the past winter! It resprouted from the ground. We did have a pretty mild winter, so we'll see if it survives another year :') kinda surprising tho

[@judalea17]

I went on a bus trip in October to the Botanic Gardens at Cranbourne Victoria, and there are several specimens within the gardens

[@pef1960]

There's already a plantation of them in the UK.

[@spiralpython1989]

Wollemi pronunciation; wool/ ah/ my. Not the stress pattern used by presenter which is closer to “wallaby”. Wollami is an anglicised version of the local Aboriginal name for the area.

[@MultiPetercool]

Aussie Bunya-Bunya pines are pretty cool too!

[@ASmithee67]

Why am I taking an Aussie tree and transplanting it to my garden in North America? Aussies save the tree for future generations, no issue. But in North America shouldn't I be saving the American Chestnut?

[@bgg]

While it's great to hear about the Wollemi pine, the scientists who manage this now have sufficient insurance populations. Rather than planting them in gardens around the world, it would help the biodiversity crisis more if we were growing plants that are indigenous to where we live so they can form part of the natural ecosystem. Where we have plants from foreign ecosystems, they occupy places where we could have indigenous plants.

[@SkylerB17]

I would 100% put one in my yard. They look cool as heck.

[@iavon6899]

Visited a private garden the other day, they had a Wollemi pine in their backyard in a large pot. It's a cool tree.

[@loisrossi841]

I love trees, so glad to know about this one. Thank you.

[@sarcasmo57]

They look rad.

[@chrisfromsouthaus2735]

Bunnings, the Aussie equivalent of Home Depot, has been selling them as living Christmas Trees, for the last decade or so.

[@falcolf]

I'd totally grow one of these, they're so cool! They'd make an amazing specimen tree!❤