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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. |