Natural History Wanderings

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Hidden within the remote canyons of Wollemi National Park, located in New South Wales, Australia, is a tree so rare and ancient that its exact location remains a closely guarded secret.

The Wollemi pine (Wollemia nobilis), a conifer species belonging to the 200 million year-old Araucariaceae family, was thought to have vanished from the planet—until a chance discovery in 1994 rewrote botanical history.

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