Thanks for showing. Seeing it first time. DSRawat Pantnagar On Tuesday, December 10, 2013 9:54:38 PM UTC+5:30, raman wrote: > > > http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/43406542/Flora%20and%20Fauna/Flora/Araucaria%20-%20New%20Caledonian%20Pine%20Tree/New%20Caledonian%20Pine%20Tree.html > > The Cook pine, called Christmas Tree in India, is a tree native to the > Cook Island, north-east of Australia in the South Pacific. The bark of the > Cook pine peels off in thin paper like sheets. Can reach 60 m in natural > habit. But more commonly grown as a house-plant in pots. The relatively > short, mostly horizontal branches are in whorls around the slender, upright > to slightly leaning trunk. The branches are lined with cord-like, > horizontal branchlets. The branchlets are covered with small, green, > incurved, point-tipped, spirally arranged, overlapping leaves. The young > leaves are needle-like, while the broader adult leaves are triangular and > scale-like. The female seed cones are scaly, egg-shaped, and up to 6 inches > (15 cm) long. The smaller, more numerous male pollen cones are at the tips > of the branchlets and are scaly, foxtail-shaped, and 2 inches (5 cm) long. > The bark peels off in papery strips and is rough, gray, and resinous. The > trees have a slender, spire-like crown and look like unusually tall, thin > Christmas trees. > > Raman >
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