A tree story as exciting as a sci-fi, and much more heartwarming.
The Wollemi pine is a treasure. I think there is one in Christchurch botanical garden.
90-million-year-old fossils and presumed long extinct, fewer than 100 wild Wollemi pines still exist in a grove share.google/WC5unsbeS4dO...
In 1994, a New South Wales park ranger rappelled into a sandstone canyon 150 kilometres from Sydney and walked into a stand of conifers the fossil record had marked extinct for 90 million years. Fewer...