Scientific Name: Araucaria heterophylla
Common Name: Norfolk Island pine
Family Name: Araucariaceae
Origin: Australia / New Zealand
Hardiness Zone: Zone 9: (-7 to -1 °C)
Plant Type: Conifer, Indoor foliage plant
Mature Size: 2 - 3m x 1.5 - 2.0m (height x width)
Habit: Upright
Form: Pyramidal - narrowly
Texture: Medium - fine
Landscape Uses: Indoor plant
Exposure: Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade
Soil or Media: Well-drained
Leaves: Needle-like, Spiraled, Leathery, Glabrous, Acicular, Falcate, Entire
Flowers: n/a (male cone), Yellow, Brown, Aug-Sep
Fruit: Cone (winged seeds), Brown
Key ID Features:
Conical evergreen conifer, slowly reaching 3m tall when potted indoors, with regular whorls of 3-5 horizontal branches with fan-like, often drooping branchlets; leaves spiraled, awl-shaped, most 9-15mm long, curved and pointing outwards.