About
This evergreen tree features branches adorned with sharply angled, triangular dark green foliage. In mature specimens, cones can develop on the upper limbs, with male and female cones typically found on different trees.
About the genus
Araucaria comprises evergreen trees native to the Southern Hemisphere. These trees feature whorled branching and leaves that can be needle-like, triangular, or scale-like in appearance. They produce small male cones and larger female cones, typically found on different specimens.
Growing conditions
- Sunlight
- Full sun, Partial shade
- Soil type
- Chalk, Loam, Sand
- Soil pH
- Acid, Alkaline, Neutral
- Soil moisture
- Moist but well-drained
- Aspect
- East-facing, South-facing, West-facing
- Exposure
- Sheltered
- UK hardiness
- H7
Plant details
- Plant type
- Conifers, Trees
- Habit
- Bushy
- Foliage
- Evergreen
- Height
- Higher than 12 metres
- Spread
- wider than 8 metres
- Time to full height
- 20-50 years
- Suggested uses
- Architectural
- Native to
- Chile, Argentina
Care notes
- Cultivation
- Grow in moderately fertile, moist but well drained soil in an open site with shelter from cold, drying winds
- Pruning
- Pruning group 1; only young specimens respond well to pruning back into older wood
- Propagation
- Propagate by seed sown in seedbed as soon as ripe; take cuttings of vertical shoot tips in midsummer and root in a cold frame; cuttings of horizontal side branches will not form an upright tree
- Pest resistance
- Generally pest-free
- Disease resistance
- May be susceptible to honey fungus