Araucaria araucana, 84.0137--CA. UC Berkeley Bot. Gard. 10 Feb 04. 152.jpg
Araucaria araucana, 84.0137--CA. UC Berkeley Bot. Gard. 10 Feb 04. 149.jpg
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Araucaria araucana, 84.0137--CA. UC Berkeley Bot. Gard. 10 Feb 04. 155.jpg
Araucaria araucana, 84.0137--CA. UC Berkeley Bot. Gard. 10 Feb 04. 151.jpg
Araucaria araucana, 84.0137--CA. UC Berkeley Bot. Gard. 10 Feb 04. 150.jpg
Araucaria araucana, 84.0137--CA. UC Berkeley Bot. Gard. 10 Feb 04. 154.jpg
Native to Argentina South, Chile Central, Chile South; introduced into Great Britain (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.
Location
United States, California, Alameda County (Berkeley, UC Berkeley Botanical Garden)
37.87544, -122.238724
Location Remarks
Strawberry Canyon, University of California campus, city of Berkeley
Collectors
No collectors specified
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Pinopsida
Order
Pinales
Family
Araucariaceae
Genus
Araucaria
Specific Epithet
araucana
Authorship
(Molina) K.Koch
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Very high
ED 56.1
Among the most evolutionarily isolated plants known — losing it erases an irreplaceable branch of the plant tree of life.
Threat status
IUCN Red List
EDGE score
26.8
Global rank
#8 of 1,090
Top 100 globally
This lineage appears to have diverged from its closest living relatives roughly 28 million years ago — a long, lonely branch of the plant tree of life.
Source: Gymnosperms EDGE assessment →