family araucariaceae การใช้
- Conifers of the southern hemisphere family Araucariaceae are the characteristic tree species.
- The amber is thought to have been formed from resins of the extinct Pinales tree family Cheirolepidiaceae and possibly from the living family Araucariaceae.
- Fossilized tree trunks of the family Araucariaceae can be found in certain sediments, geological witnesses of times when Kerguelen had a warmer climate than today.
- The initial suspicion was that it had certain characteristics of the 200-million-year-old family Araucariaceae, but was not similar to any living species in the family.
- Like the Australian rainforests and the temperate forests of New Zealand, conifers of the Southern Hemisphere families Araucariaceae and Podocarpaceae are mixed with angiosperm trees, including the Southern Hemisphere genus " Nothofagus " and trees and shrubs of families Myrtaceae and Proteaceae.
- In both botanical and popular literature the tree has been almost universally referred to as the "'Wollemi pine "', although it is not a true pine ( genus " Pinus " ) nor a member of the pine family ( Pinaceae ), but rather is related to " Agathis " and " Araucaria " in the family Araucariaceae.