Candelabra Tree
Araucaria angustifolia (Bertol.) Steud.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 38 m
- wide
- 28 m
Araucariaceae
Also called Parana pine, Parana Pine, Paraná-pine
Formerly Araucaria brasiliana, Araucaria dioica, Araucaria ridolfiana, Araucaria saviana, and 3 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SE. & S. Brazil to Argentina (Misiones)Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
- Height
- 38 mRead from Wikipedia and Plants for a Future, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Wikipedia 40–40 m; Plants for a Future 35–35 m
- Spread
- 28 mRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -6.7 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
Not known yet: water, flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (3)
- Spanish
- Pino Blanco, Pino de Missiones
- Portuguese
- araucária, curi, pinheiro-brasileiro
- Chinese
- 巴西南洋杉, 狭叶南洋杉
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Araucaria angustifolia (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.