- Pronunciation: ah-roo-CARE-ee-ah kun-ing-HAME-ee-ah
- Common Name: Hoop Pine
- Derivation: Araucaria: from
- Type: Tree
- Family: ARAUCARIACEAE
- Size: 50 metres
- Flowers: November to February - separate male and female stroboli on separate plants
- Fruit: Large Cone with numerous scales
- Vegetation Type: Montane, Emergent in dry Rainforest,araucarian notophyll Ecotonal Rainforest, on alluvial sandy loam, Myrtle Creek sandstone.
- Species List: Kennilworth Fig Tree Walk, FI Podberscek, Biosphere Day Noosa Woods, Cooroy Mill Site, Noosa High School, Cooroy Primary School, NNP service road, Banana, Old Tewantin, Fraser Island, Janet, Batianoff 87, NNP Viewland/Brunjes, NNP Tanglewood NNP Palm Grove Dandaloo, Upper Yandina Creek, Heritage Park, RE 12.2.3. RE 12.8.13. RE 12.9-10.16. RE 12.9-10.16x1. RE 12.11.10. RE 12.12.1. RE 12.12.16.
Cultural Notes
Useful bush Plant.
Warmed Sap used as cement
Timber: Australia's Most important native Softwood timber, white cream to light brown cabinet mouldings floorings
Identification Notes
Bark: grey/brown rough and scaly sections encircling the Trunk. Tight, persistent, rough make this a suitable host Tree for a variety of epiphytic orchids and other plants.
Mature female cones Ovoid to globular.
Landscaping Notes
Shade-loving.
Noosa Council Preferred Species list .
Pot Plant potential. Useful indoors for limited time - good Christmas Tree.
Size limits its use to parks and acreage planting.(Darren Mansfield)
Successfully propagated by Mooloolah Native Nursery
Associated Fauna
Bird Attracting: Finches favour this Tree to build their Grass dome nests. Double-barred Finch nest in Hoop Pine at Wallace Park, Noosaville.
