Araucaria araucana outlasted the dinosaurs, but today scientific experts consider the tree endangered. Cultivated monkey puzzle trees grow in gardens and parks around the world, but in the wild ...

But while Araucaria trees are now most valued for food, it was their excellent timber that led to their downfall. Brazil’s strong economic growth in the 20th century fuelled an unsustainable ...

Araucaria araucana, or monkey puzzle ... through the 1800s and 1900s as Chile industrialised, with Araucaria timber in demand for pit props, paper pulp manufacturing and railway sleepers.

Araucaria araucana (Monkey Puzzle), a southern South American tree species of exceptional cultural and economic importance, is of conservation concern owing to extensive historical clearance and ...

The guests were there to witness the planting of a young Araucaria araucana, the first to be grown at Pencarrow. As a rule in tree-planting ceremonies, the planter is more celebrated than the tree, ...