Colonial Pine
Araucaria cunninghamii Mudie
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- —
- wide
- 6.0 m
Araucariaceae
Also called Dorrigo Pine, Hoop Pine, Moreton Bay pine, Moreton Bay Pine, Moreton Bay pine; Hoop Pine
Formerly Altingia cunninghamii, Eutacta cunninghamii, Eutassa cunninghamii
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
- New Guinea to E. AustraliaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from RHS, one source
- Spread
- 4.0 m to 8.0 mRead from RHS, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -5 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: height, flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (3)
- Chinese
- 南洋杉
- Simplified Chinese
- 南洋杉
- Chinese (Taiwan)
- 肯氏南洋杉
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 2.0
- 3D model: Araucaria cunninghamii (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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