SEEDS OF ARAUCARIA ARAUCANA - MONKEY PUZZLE TREE
Elegant tree whose fruit is edible. Ideal for spacious gardens.
Evergreen tree reaching 30m of a height with a thick trunk. Dark-green leaves looking like hard and thorny scales. Its oval female pine cones are green turning brown when getting older.
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| Average germination (%) | 70-90 |
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| Climate Zone | Temperate |
| Germination (in days) | 15-25 |
| Hardiness | Hardy (tolerates temperatures down to -5ºC) |
| Plant use | Bonsai, City garden, Coastal garden, Culinary, Edible, Gardening, Specimen, Timber |
| Seeds per gram | 0 |
| Soil - Moisture | Moist |
| Soil - Ph | Acid |
| Soil - Type | Clay, Sand |
Direct sowing. Lightly cover the seeds and maintain the humidity until germination is completed.
It grows on clay, stony, sandy and well-drained soils.
Its good-quality wood is compact and light. It is used to make furniture, paper paste and in building trade. A noticeable tree in gardens for its typical wide branches. Look at it and see how symetric it is. Its shape is beautiful.
Its edible cone pines have a high nutritional intake and contain many carbon hydrates with a high calorific level. It is thought that its resin can cure skin ulcers.
It is a symbolic tree in Argentina, seen on the coat of arms of one of its provinces.
No need to prune.
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