Wollemia nobilis is a species of evergreen spiny-leaf coniferous plants (in the Araucariaceae family), native to Australia. Although it's commonly known as the Wollemi pine, it's not a true pine. It was discovered in 1994 in a gorge in the Wollemi National Park in New South Wales. Scientists studying the tree noted that the foliage closely resembles fossils of species dating back as far as the Jurassic Period, around 200 million years ago. The Wollemi pine is classified as critically endangered with fewer than 100 adult trees known to be growing in the wild. Many thousands of Wollemi pines have been grown from seeds, cuttings and tissue culture at the Botanic Gardens of Sydney and been made available to botanic gardens around the world. Male and female cones occur on the same tree; female cones appear on higher branches and are much more rounded than the narrow male cones.
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