The Wollemi Pine
These pines, a species that is ,2500,000 years old from the time if the dinosaurs, have made it through the brush fire conflagration.
Awesome.
Its a remnant of the Gondwanan forests that once covered much of Australia.
They still exist in abundance on Tasmania.
I would love to see those trees in person - I can’t imagine it. I was amazed to see Joshua Trees - the individual trees can be thousands of years old, I’m not sure how old the species is. But careless or crazy people would endanger those Australian trees if it was common knowledge where to find them.
The Blue Mountains are beautiful!!
From the piece:”...existed up to 200m years ago...” So, which is it? 2.5 million or 200 million? Asking for a friend who want to build a log cabin out of them. :-)
You mean someone was around to date them then?
Perhaps the karma of this species is about exhausted.
It would appear to be a hardy survivor though.
They survived the recent bushfires because of where they were growing, protected, in a canyon; just as they survived the world-wide catastrophe which wiped out all the tall forests 2500 years ago. There are no tall trees over the age of 2500 years on the planet. The bristlecone pines on White Mountain are not living trees, they are the remains of a healthy forest that was mutilated by a massive vortex which turned much of the timber to silica and left behind fossil trees...
Only superheated, silica-laden water can do this to a tree.