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In my family's garden at Mt Tomah, NSW. We bought this tree only in November 2006 from the Mt Tomah Botanic Garden, advanced specimen 1.8 m tall. It has already put out one major flush of new foliage, and the leaves on upper branchlets are now in the adult 4 rows.
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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Botanic Gardens, Sydney.Close-up of trunk of one of the oldest of the Wollemi Pines planted out in the Sydney Gardens, probably from the earliest propagations following its discovery in 1994. Already the characteristic bark texture has developed, likened by some to Coco Pops. I suspect the bumps are a kind of resin-blister, as found in various conifers, as they bleed resin copiously with the slightest wound. The white stuff you can see is dried resin.
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Mount Tomah Botanic Garden, New South Wales.The dangling brown bits are old pollen cones, while immature seed cones are evident higher up. These are on a specimen only about 2.5 m tall, one of a group planted out only about 5 years ago, as advanced container plants. They seem slightly stressed, which may account for the early cone production. Behind is a hedge of Prunus laurocerasus -- it's possible that massive root competition from this may be the cause of stress.
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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Mount Annan Botanic Garden, New South WalesImmature seed cones, abundantly produced on this 15-year-old tree.
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Botanic Gardens, Sydney.This is the winter resting stage, with terminal bud encased in a globule of white resin. Although the Wollemi Pine is subtropical, it shows a strong seasonal growrth rhythm, with new growth flushes in early summer. This was a young specimen under 1 m high.
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Mount Tomah Botanic Garden, New South Wales.Male cone, pollen already shed.
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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
