Plants of the Wet Tropics - North Queensland - Kauri Pine and Hoop Pine

These tall (up to 50m), straight trunked, high altitude rainforest trees are the largest conifers in Australia. What is really strange is that they have leaves - thick elongated, oval; glossy green above and paler underneath. These trees bear both male and female cones. The smaller male cones appear in November and the larger, rough green globular cones develop in December and January. The female cones contains several winged seeds. The fruit is eaten by Sulphur-crested cockatoos.

This is supposed to be a Hoop Pine -the bark is often impregnated with resin. But it doesn;t look like the picture in the field guide. this is the problem with labels and field guides.