Araucanía

... me it was from Chile and Argentina and that it was not a pine, but a prehistoric species of tree whose nomenclature comes from the Araucana natives of Chile who used the nuts from the tree as a major food source, with the common name coming from the first ...

... . The park we visited today was created to preserve the largest forest of the Arauca or Chilean Monkey Puzzle tree (Araucaria araucana). The following is thanks to Wikipedia: The Pehuén or Monkey-puzzle is the hardiest species in the conifer genus ...

... to catch better glimpses of the volcano, and marvelling at the immense stands of the convoluted monkey puzzle trees (Araucaria araucana). Fairly unique to this area of the world, they are currently fully laden with attractive pine-like cones that from a ...

... National Park) was pretty spectacular, though, set amongst a forest of "monkey puzzle" trees, more properly known as Araucaria araucana, the national tree of Chile. San Martin itself is a quiet, more family oriented version of Bariloche, its much more ...

... nights !! The Ruta runs along the Cordillera of the Neuquen province and is much favoured by the Monkey Puzzle Tree (Araucaria araucana). We first came across the tree in Nacional Parque Lanin but this was only a small area nothing compared with what we ...

... top if they are lucky enough to survive a long lifetime.  You can check them out here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araucaria_araucana We were hoping to do a hike to the Huerquehue Lakes basin amongst these great trees the next day if the sun was ...

... 30. oktober. Tur på eiga hand med ordentlig lokalbuss til Cañi og Araucaria ("apetreet") http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araucaria_araucana som veks på 1000m, men dette er ei anna historie som kjem seinare for no må eg na busen tilbake til ...