Norfolk pine Araucariaceae Araucaria heterophylla (Salisb.) Franco Listen to the Latin   symbol: ARHE12
Other Fact Sheets
Leaf: Spirally arranged, short (1/2 inch), curved spruce-like needles, dark green above and below. Adult foliage associated with fertile branches is more scale-like, shorter and broader.
Flower: Male cones are pendant, 1 1/2 inches long; female cones broadly egg-shaped and green, at branch tips.

Fruit: A large cone, 5 inches long and 6 inches wide, cone scales bearing a recurved spine, green changing to brown.

Twig: Slender and green, covered in foliage for several years, later turning brown and retaining dead foliage.

Bark: Initially covered in dead leaves, becoming smooth and gray-brown, later rough and dark, broken into small plates.

Form: Very symmetrical, graceful, and pyramidal, with stiff main branches and drooping lateral branches. Becoming very large in its native habitat, more commonly to 50 feet as an ornamental.
 
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USDA Plants Database - Horticulture
Araucaria heterophylla is planted in the highlighted USDA hardiness zones to the left and is not known to widely escape cultivaton.

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