A Monster of a Monkey Puzzle
A huge Araucaria tree grow in the back of the Ooty Botanical Gardens, a representative of an ancient lineage of conifers which used to dominate the world
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Botany:
- 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]
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Geography:
- Latitude: 11.41998 ° north of the Equator
- Longitude: 76.713293 ° east of the Prime Meridian
- Altitude: 2259.1 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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