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REFERRING to the note in NATURE of January 19, p. 87, about this archaic tree ripening seed, may I say that it will do so regularly in this country if it gets a chance? But whereas it is diœcious, seed is produced only where male and female trees are planted near enough to each other for the wind to carry the pollen from the male catkins to the female cones. In 1906 I took Dr. Augustine Henry over to Castle Kennedy. There had been a heavy gale a few days before, and the ground about the fine avenue of Araucaria was thickly strewn with ripe seed, where of we collected a bagful. Some we ate, treated like chestnuts, and found them excellent. Others I caused to be sown, and have now a hilltop planted with more than twelve hundred monkey-puzzles, some of which are 12 ft. high. The female tree produces seed only in alternate years as the cones take two seasons to ripen.
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MAXWELL, H. Araucaria imbricata. Nature 109, 209 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109209c0
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