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{{short description|Species of pine tree in Australia}}
{{Short description|Species of pine tree in Australia}}
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| image = Araucaria cunninghamii Noosa National Park Queensland.jpg
| image = Hoop Pines at Mallanganee National Park.jpg
| status = LC
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| status_system = IUCN3.1
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| parent = Araucaria sect. Eutacta
| parent = Araucaria sect. Eutacta
| species = cunninghamii
| species = cunninghamii
| authority = [[Robert Mudie|Mudie]]<ref name=WCSP>{{WCSP | 14352 | accessdate = 23 March 2017}}</ref>
| authority = [[Robert Mudie|Mudie]]<ref name=WCSP>{{WCSP | 14352 | access-date = 23 March 2017}}</ref>
| synonyms = * ''Altingia cunninghamii'' {{Au|(Mudie) Corrie}}
| synonyms = * ''Altingia cunninghamii'' {{Au|(Mudie) Corrie}}
* ''Eutassa cunninghamii'' {{Au|(Mudie) G.Don}}
* ''Eutassa cunninghamii'' {{Au|(Mudie) G.Don}}
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'''''Araucaria cunninghamii''''' is a species of ''[[Araucaria]]'' known as '''hoop pine'''. Other less commonly used names include '''colonial pine''', '''Queensland pine''',<ref>{{cite web|title=Hoop Pine |url=https://www.daf.qld.gov.au/forestry/using-wood-and-its-benefits/wood-properties-of-timber-trees/hoop-pine |publisher=Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries |access-date=23 March 2017 }}</ref> '''Dorrigo pine''', '''Moreton Bay pine''' and '''Richmond River pine'''.<ref name="iucn status 19 November 2021" /> The scientific name honours the [[botanist]] and [[explorer]] [[Allan Cunningham (botanist)|Allan Cunningham]], who collected the first specimens in the 1820s.
'''''Araucaria cunninghamii''''' is a species of ''[[Araucaria]]'' known as '''hoop pine'''. Other less commonly used names include '''colonial pine''', '''Queensland pine''',<ref>{{cite web |title=Hoop Pine |url=https://www.daf.qld.gov.au/forestry/using-wood-and-its-benefits/wood-properties-of-timber-trees/hoop-pine |publisher=Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries |access-date=23 March 2017 |archive-date=25 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170225020455/https://www.daf.qld.gov.au/forestry/using-wood-and-its-benefits/wood-properties-of-timber-trees/hoop-pine |url-status=dead }}</ref> '''Dorrigo pine''', '''Moreton Bay pine''' and '''Richmond River pine'''.<ref name="iucn status 19 November 2021" /> The scientific name honours the [[botanist]] and [[explorer]] [[Allan Cunningham (botanist)|Allan Cunningham]], who collected the first specimens in the 1820s.

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==Habitat==
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The species is found in the dry [[rainforest]]s of [[New South Wales]] and [[Queensland]] and in [[New Guinea]]. The trees can live up to 450 years and grow to a height of 60 metres.<ref>{{cite web|title=Hoop Pine |url=http://about.nsw.gov.au/encyclopedia/article/hoop-pine/ |publisher=about NSW |access-date=25 August 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110313145805/http://about.nsw.gov.au/encyclopedia/article/hoop-pine/ |archive-date=13 March 2011 }}</ref> The bark is rough, splits naturally, and peels easily.<ref>{{cite web|title=Species: Araucaria cunninghamii (Hoop Pine) |url=http://adl.brs.gov.au/mapserv/plant/species.phtml?speciesid=3 |publisher=Plantation Information Network |access-date=25 August 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120318130323/http://adl.brs.gov.au/mapserv/plant/species.phtml?speciesid=3 |archive-date=18 March 2012 }}</ref>

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Examples of the species can be found on ridges and mountaintops in Queensland’s [[North Burnett Region|North Burnett]] region (sometimes in quantity where dry rainforests remain - such as on the summit of [[Mount Perry, Queensland|Mount Perry]] and on ridges north of [[Mount Walsh National Park]]), inland from [[Gympie]] in the Wide Bay and also at lower elevations around homesteads where the trees may possibly have been retained for aesthetic value (an example can be seen off the road to the lookout above the town of Mount Perry and a number of trees line the approach to the town from [[Gin Gin, Queensland|Gin Gin]]).


==Description==
==Description==
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*''Araucaria cunninghamii'' var. ''cunninghamii'' – Australia, from northeast [[New South Wales]] to east-central [[Queensland]], at 0–1,000 m elevation.
*''Araucaria cunninghamii'' var. ''cunninghamii'' – Australia, from northeast [[New South Wales]] to east-central [[Queensland]], at 0–1,000 m elevation.
*''Araucaria cunninghamii'' var. ''papuana'' – New Guinea, on the mountains of [[Papua New Guinea]], and in [[Irian Jaya]], [[Indonesia]], at 100–2,700 m elevation.
*''Araucaria cunninghamii'' var. ''papuana'' – New Guinea, on the mountains of [[Papua New Guinea]], and in [[Irian Jaya]], [[Indonesia]], at 100–2,700 m elevation.

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==Habitat==
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The species is found in the dry [[rainforest]]s of [[New South Wales]] and [[Queensland]] and in [[New Guinea]]. The trees can live up to 450 years and grow to a height of 60 metres.<ref>{{cite web|title=Hoop Pine |url=http://about.nsw.gov.au/encyclopedia/article/hoop-pine/ |publisher=about NSW |access-date=25 August 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110313145805/http://about.nsw.gov.au/encyclopedia/article/hoop-pine/ |archive-date=13 March 2011 }}</ref> The bark is rough, splits naturally, and peels easily.<ref>{{cite web|title=Species: Araucaria cunninghamii (Hoop Pine) |url=http://adl.brs.gov.au/mapserv/plant/species.phtml?speciesid=3 |publisher=Plantation Information Network |access-date=25 August 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120318130323/http://adl.brs.gov.au/mapserv/plant/species.phtml?speciesid=3 |archive-date=18 March 2012 }}</ref>

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Examples of the species can be found on ridges and mountaintops in Queensland's [[North Burnett Region|North Burnett]] region (sometimes in quantity where dry rainforests remain – such as on the summit of [[Mount Perry, Queensland|Mount Perry]] and on ridges north of [[Mount Walsh National Park]]), inland from [[Gympie]] in the Wide Bay, and also at lower elevations around homesteads, where the trees may possibly have been retained for aesthetic value. An example can be seen off the road to the lookout above the town of Mount Perry and a number of trees line the approach to the town from [[Gin Gin, Queensland|Gin Gin]].


==Cultivation and other uses==
==Cultivation and other uses==
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===Pests===
===Pests===
The plantations in Queensland have been subject to damage by a native rat species, ''[[Rattus tunneyi]]'', which digs to the roots of a semi-mature tree and kills it, the animal was declared a pest for this reason.<ref name="Baverstock1983">{{cite encyclopedia |last = Baverstock |first = P.R. |author-link = P. R. Baverstock |editor-last = Strahan |editor-first = R. |editor-link = Ronald Strahan |encyclopedia = Complete book of Australian mammals. [[National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife|The national photographic index of Australian wildlife]] |title = Pale Field Rat ''Rattus Tunneyi'' |edition = 1 |year = 1983 |publisher = Angus & Robertson |location = London |isbn = 0207144540 |page = 451}}</ref> The vulnerability of ''A. cunninghamii'' plantations to pest losses has caused some of them to be replaced by ''[[Araucaria hunsteinii|A. hunsteinii]]'' which suffers less in plantation.<ref name="Wylie-1982" /> Unspecified [[Microlepidoptera]] are significant pests of the [[conifer cone|pine cone]]s of both.<ref group="Gressitt 1982" name="Microlepidoptera" />
The plantations in Queensland have been subject to damage by a native rat species, ''[[Rattus tunneyi]]'', which digs to the roots of a semi-mature tree and kills it. The animal was declared a pest for this reason.<ref name="Baverstock1983">{{cite encyclopedia |last = Baverstock |first = P.R. |author-link = P. R. Baverstock |editor-last = Strahan |editor-first = R. |editor-link = Ronald Strahan |encyclopedia = Complete book of Australian mammals. [[National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife|The national photographic index of Australian wildlife]] |title = Pale Field Rat ''Rattus Tunneyi'' |edition = 1 |year = 1983 |publisher = Angus & Robertson |location = London |isbn = 0207144540 |page = 451}}</ref> The vulnerability of ''A. cunninghamii'' plantations to pest losses has caused some of them to be replaced by ''[[Araucaria hunsteinii|A. hunsteinii]]'', which suffers less in plantation.<ref name="Wylie-1982" /> Unspecified [[Microlepidoptera]] are significant pests of the [[conifer cone|pinecone]]s of both.<ref group="Gressitt 1982" name="Microlepidoptera" />


====Biological control====
====Biological control====
''[[Cryptolaemus montrouzieri]]'' is a [[coccinellidae|coccinellid]] predator of [[mealybug]] and soft [[scale insect]] parasites of ''A. cunninghamii'', and has several characteristics that make it a good [[biological control|biocontrol]] for use in plantations.<ref name="Finlay-Doney-Walter-2012" /> Although they are less interested in other trees - by many multiples - ''C. montrouzieri'' does hunt the same pests in [[custard apple]] and [[citrus]] plantations.<ref name="Finlay-Doney-Walter-2012" />
''[[Cryptolaemus montrouzieri]]'' is a [[coccinellidae|coccinellid]] predator of [[mealybug]] and soft [[scale insect]] parasites of ''A. cunninghamii'', and has several characteristics that make it a good [[biological control|biocontrol]] for use in plantations.<ref name="Finlay-Doney-Walter-2012" /> Although they are less interested in other trees – by many multiples – ''C. montrouzieri'' does hunt the same pests in [[custard apple]] and [[citrus]] plantations.<ref name="Finlay-Doney-Walter-2012" />


==Gallery==
==Gallery==
<gallery mode="packed" heights="200px">
<gallery mode="packed" heights="200px">
File:WilliamLawsonDr.jpg|Hoop Pine in [[Prospect Reservoir]] in [[Sydney]]
File:WilliamLawsonDr.jpg|Hoop pine in [[Prospect Reservoir]] in [[Sydney]]
Image:Araucaria cunninghamii bark.JPG|The banded bark of ''Araucaria cunninghamii''
Image:Araucaria cunninghamii bark.JPG|The banded bark of ''Araucaria cunninghamii''
</gallery>
</gallery>

== See also ==
[[Hoop Pines, Bald Hills]]


==References==
==References==
{{Reflist|refs=
{{Reflist|refs=


<ref name="Finlay-Doney-Walter-2012">{{cite journal | last1=Finlay-Doney | first1=M. | last2=Walter | first2=G.H. | title=Behavioral responses to specific prey and host plant species by a generalist predatory coccinellid (''Cryptolaemus montrouzieri'' Mulsant) | journal=[[Biological Control (journal)|Biological Control]] | publisher=[[Elsevier]] BV | volume=63 | issue=3 | year=2012 | issn=1049-9644 | doi=10.1016/j.biocontrol.2012.09.004 | pages=270–278}}</ref>
<ref name="Finlay-Doney-Walter-2012">{{cite journal | last1=Finlay-Doney | first1=M. | last2=Walter | first2=G.H. | title=Behavioral responses to specific prey and host plant species by a generalist predatory coccinellid (''Cryptolaemus montrouzieri'' Mulsant) | journal=[[Biological Control (journal)|Biological Control]] | publisher=[[Elsevier]] BV | volume=63 | issue=3 | year=2012 | issn=1049-9644 | doi=10.1016/j.biocontrol.2012.09.004 | pages=270–278| doi-access=free | bibcode=2012BiolC..63..270F }}</ref>


<ref name="Wylie-1982">{{cite journal | last=Wylie | first=F. R. | title=Insect problems of ''Araucaria'' plantations in Papua New Guinea and Australia | journal=[[Australian Forestry]] | publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]] ([[Informa]] UK Limited) | volume=45 | issue=2 | year=1982 | issn=0004-9158 | doi=10.1080/00049158.1982.10674343 | pages=125–131}}</ref>
<ref name="Wylie-1982">{{cite journal | last=Wylie | first=F. R. | title=Insect problems of ''Araucaria'' plantations in Papua New Guinea and Australia | journal=[[Australian Forestry]] | publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]] ([[Informa]] UK Limited) | volume=45 | issue=2 | year=1982 | issn=0004-9158 | doi=10.1080/00049158.1982.10674343 | pages=125–131| bibcode=1982AuFor..45..125W }}</ref>


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*{{cite book | editor-last=Gressitt | editor-first=J. L. | series=Monographiae Biologicae | title=Biogeography and Ecology of New Guinea | publisher=[[Springer Netherlands]] | publication-place=[[Dordrecht]] | year=1982 | volume=42 | isbn=978-94-009-8634-3 | issn=0077-0639 | doi=10.1007/978-94-009-8632-9 | page=390| s2cid=26922762 }}
*{{cite book | editor-last=Gressitt | editor-first=J. L. | series=Monographiae Biologicae | title=Biogeography and Ecology of New Guinea | publisher=[[Springer Netherlands]] | publication-place=[[Dordrecht]] | year=1982 | volume=42 | isbn=978-94-009-8634-3 | issn=0077-0639 | doi=10.1007/978-94-009-8632-9 | page=390| s2cid=26922762 }}
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{{Reflist|group="Gressitt 1982"|refs=


<ref name="Microlepidoptera">
<ref name="Microlepidoptera">
p.{{nbs}}391, ''4.5. Insect pests of ''Araucaria'' species in New Guinea''
p.{{spaces}}391, ''4.5. Insect pests of ''Araucaria'' species in New Guinea''
:A number of as yet unidentified members of the Microlepidoptera also cause much wastage in cones of ''A. cunninghamii'' and ''A. hunsteinii''."
:A number of as yet unidentified members of the Microlepidoptera also cause much wastage in cones of ''A. cunninghamii'' and ''A. hunsteinii''."
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</ref>


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[[Category:Araucaria|cunninghamii]]
[[Category:Araucaria|cunninghamii]]

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Araucaria cunninghamii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Gymnospermae
Division: Pinophyta
Class: Pinopsida
Order: Araucariales
Family: Araucariaceae
Genus: Araucaria
Section: A. sect. Eutacta
Species:
A. cunninghamii
Binomial name
Araucaria cunninghamii
Synonyms[2]
  • Altingia cunninghamii (Mudie) Corrie
  • Eutassa cunninghamii (Mudie) G.Don
  • Eutacta cunninghamii (Mudie) Link

Araucaria cunninghamii is a species of Araucaria known as hoop pine. Other less commonly used names include colonial pine, Queensland pine,[3] Dorrigo pine, Moreton Bay pine and Richmond River pine.[1] The scientific name honours the botanist and explorer Allan Cunningham, who collected the first specimens in the 1820s.

Description

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The leaves on young trees are awl-shaped, 1–2 cm long, about 2 mm thick at the base, and scale-like, incurved, 1–2 cm long and 4 mm broad on mature trees. The cones are ovoid, 8–10 cm long and 6–8 cm diameter, and take about 18 months to mature. They disintegrate at maturity to release the nut-like edible seeds.

Subspecies

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There are two varieties:

Habitat

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The species is found in the dry rainforests of New South Wales and Queensland and in New Guinea. The trees can live up to 450 years and grow to a height of 60 metres.[4] The bark is rough, splits naturally, and peels easily.[5]

Examples of the species can be found on ridges and mountaintops in Queensland's North Burnett region (sometimes in quantity where dry rainforests remain – such as on the summit of Mount Perry and on ridges north of Mount Walsh National Park), inland from Gympie in the Wide Bay, and also at lower elevations around homesteads, where the trees may possibly have been retained for aesthetic value. An example can be seen off the road to the lookout above the town of Mount Perry and a number of trees line the approach to the town from Gin Gin.

Cultivation and other uses

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The wood is a high-quality timber that is particularly important to the plywood industry and also used for furniture, veneer, joinery, panelling, particle board, flooring and boats.[6] Most natural stands in Australia and Papua New Guinea have been depleted by logging. It is now mainly found on timber plantations; however, the species continues to thrive in protected areas, including Lamington National Park where at least one walking track is named after it.[7]

Aboriginal Australians used the resin as cement.[8]

Pests

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The plantations in Queensland have been subject to damage by a native rat species, Rattus tunneyi, which digs to the roots of a semi-mature tree and kills it. The animal was declared a pest for this reason.[9] The vulnerability of A. cunninghamii plantations to pest losses has caused some of them to be replaced by A. hunsteinii, which suffers less in plantation.[10] Unspecified Microlepidoptera are significant pests of the pinecones of both.[Gressitt 1982 1]

Biological control

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Cryptolaemus montrouzieri is a coccinellid predator of mealybug and soft scale insect parasites of A. cunninghamii, and has several characteristics that make it a good biocontrol for use in plantations.[11] Although they are less interested in other trees – by many multiples – C. montrouzieri does hunt the same pests in custard apple and citrus plantations.[11]

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See also

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Hoop Pines, Bald Hills

References

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  1. ^ a b Thomas, P. (2011). "Araucaria cunninghamii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011: e.T32835A9734286. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T32835A9734286.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Araucaria cunninghamii". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 23 March 2017.
  3. ^ "Hoop Pine". Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries. Archived from the original on 25 February 2017. Retrieved 23 March 2017.
  4. ^ "Hoop Pine". about NSW. Archived from the original on 13 March 2011. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
  5. ^ "Species: Araucaria cunninghamii (Hoop Pine)". Plantation Information Network. Archived from the original on 18 March 2012. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
  6. ^ "Hoop Pine". Australian Timber Database. Timber.net.au. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
  7. ^ "Nature, culture and history". Queensland Government. Archived from the original on 14 August 2012. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
  8. ^ Corlett, Eloise. "An Evolution Of Ethnobotany". ByronBayNow. Archived from the original on 18 February 2011. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
  9. ^ Baverstock, P.R. (1983). "Pale Field Rat Rattus Tunneyi". In Strahan, R. (ed.). Complete book of Australian mammals. The national photographic index of Australian wildlife (1 ed.). London: Angus & Robertson. p. 451. ISBN 0207144540.
  10. ^ Wylie, F. R. (1982). "Insect problems of Araucaria plantations in Papua New Guinea and Australia". Australian Forestry. 45 (2). Taylor & Francis (Informa UK Limited): 125–131. Bibcode:1982AuFor..45..125W. doi:10.1080/00049158.1982.10674343. ISSN 0004-9158.
  11. ^ a b Finlay-Doney, M.; Walter, G.H. (2012). "Behavioral responses to specific prey and host plant species by a generalist predatory coccinellid (Cryptolaemus montrouzieri Mulsant)". Biological Control. 63 (3). Elsevier BV: 270–278. Bibcode:2012BiolC..63..270F. doi:10.1016/j.biocontrol.2012.09.004. ISSN 1049-9644.
  1. ^ p. 391, 4.5. Insect pests of Araucaria species in New Guinea
    A number of as yet unidentified members of the Microlepidoptera also cause much wastage in cones of A. cunninghamii and A. hunsteinii."
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