XfrogPlants Wollemi Pine
( Wollemia nobilis )

This XfrogPlants Wollemi Pine 3D model collection contains
three
highly detailed, fully textured variations of the plant at different ages.
Tree, evergreen conifer
Period: Jurassic to present day
Environment: conifer forests
Climate: warm
Notes: The Wollemi Pine belongs to the Araucariaceae family and is therefore not a real pine, but a relative of the Monkey Puzzle tree. Wollemis are species who first appeared in the Jurassic and were believed extinct, until in 1994 David Noble, a Wildlife Officer, found some in a groove in a sheltered place in the Wollemi Park (Australia). The most remarkable aspect of this tree is the bark, which looks like a conglomerate of little balls, often covered with resin. The Wollemi pine was a diffused inhabitant of the conifer forests that offered shelter and food to many vegetarian dinosaurs of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.