Conifers are great, and this is one of the most perfect coniferous designs ever - it's been in mass production unchanged since... well, I bet we still had gills and scales back then.
Rozelle Psychiatric Hospital, inner-western Sydney. Same tree as in photo 1467. I suspect the rings on the trunk are from scars of the original leaves, which can persist for maybe 10 years before being shed.
Mount Tomah, New South Wales - in our garden. Apex of one of the two leading shoots of this 1.8 m / 6 ft tall plant, planted late 2006. Note terminal buds rounded (as in all Araucariaceae) and covered in white resin, and development of brown lenticels on stem, which later coalesce into the "coco-pops" bark characteristic of this tree.