Araucaria columnaris
Cook pine · also Cook's pine, New Caledonia pine, New Caledonian pine
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Araucaria columnaris is a columnar conifer native to New Caledonia, often planted as an ornamental or street tree. It is known for its distinctive leaning habit, where trees consistently lean towards the equator. This species thrives in wet tropical climates and is considered low risk for invasiveness.
Where it grows
Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.
- 1070.02%35 yr6.0 in
- 370.03%—5.0 in
- 40.00%—6.1 in
Traits
- Form
- Columnar
- Foliage
- Evergreen
- Mature height
- 50–100 ft
- Canopy spread
- 10–20 ft
- Growth rate
- Fast
Trunk diameters across every city: median 5.0 in, mean 5.9 in, 90th percentile 11 in. Measured at breast height, as published by each inventory.
Native range
Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.
Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
- New Caledonia rain forests
Tropical & Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
- New Caledonia dry forests
Other Araucaria in the catalogue
8 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.
