Bio Diversity Park

Common Name : Hoop Pine

Hindi Name : हूप पाइन | Scientific Name : Araucaria cunninghamii
Family : Araucariaceae
Uses : It yields an excellent timber, which is used for all kinds of light construction and interior work, including mouldings, linings, panelling, domestic flooring, shelves, cupboards, general joinery, furniture and cabinet work. Special applications are matches, chopsticks and implements.
Native: New Guinea
General Description:

It is an asymmetrical tree to 60m tall, 4m in girth. Bark rough, in horizontal bands, exfoliating in fine circular bands. Branches long, branchlets in tufts at the ends. Seasonal branchlets to 2 cm in diameter. Juvenile leaves spirally arranged, green or glaucous, margins entire, flattened, stomata on both surfaces. Adult leaves scale-like, 0.8-2cm long, incurved, acute, imbricate, keeled on both sides, stomata on both surfaces. Male cone cylindrical, 2-3cm long by 5-7mm wide, with short involucral leaves, with 10 scales; microsporophyll’s rhombic, obtuse. Female cone ovoid, symmetrical, 8-10cm long by 6-8cm wide. Seeds 1.5cm long by 6-7mm wide, with narrow wings. Cotyledons 2, germination epigeal.