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| Title: | Living Fossils- Wollemi Pine |
| Issue Date: | Apr-2010 |
| Publisher: | CSIR |
| Abstract: | The
Wollemi pine (Wollemia nobilis)
gets
its
name from an Aboriginal word
meaning,
“keep your eyes open and look
around
you.” Obviously David Noble,
New
South Wales National Parks and
Wildlife
Officer was doing just that one
sunny
afternoon in 1994 when he spotted
a
big tree which looked like a tree fern
with
attractive and unusually green foliage.
The
specific name nobilis is
a tribute to
him
for having discovered “one of the
oldest
and rarest trees” on Earth with only
about
a hundred mature trees growing in
the
wild. Commenting on the discovery,
Professor
Carrick Chambers of Sydney’s
Royal
Botanic Gardens said: “The
discovery of the Wollemi pine is the
equivalent of finding a small dinosaur on
Earth.” |
| Page(s): | 55 |
| ISSN: | 0036-8512 |
| Source: | SR Vol.47(04) [April 2010]
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