A Bunya Puzzle for a Monkey
A strange Australian Monkey Puzzle Tree with big gap amongst its branches, growing on the Ooty Botanics lawn.
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Common name: Bunya Bunya Pine : This giant, prickly tree from NE Australia is a surviving relict of an ancient lineage of once-widespread Southern Hemisphere forests
Botanical species: Araucaria bidwillii
Botanical family : Araucariaceae [Monkey Puzzle]
Geography:
Latitude: 11.418308 ° north of the Equator
Longitude: 76.711666 ° east of the Prime Meridian
Altitude: 2235.4 metres above sea level
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Journey:
A West Coast Jungle Triangle
Path : From Bangalore to the Western Ghats at Bandipur and Ooty, and Agumbe Rainforest, and then down the coast from Udupi to Calicut and back to Bangalore via Nilambur
Date photographed: 2.11.09
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