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Wollemi Pine

Wollemia nobilis

CR — Critically Endangered

Description

A 'living fossil' tree discovered in 1994, previously known only from 200-million-year-old fossils. Its exact location is a state secret.

CategoryPlant

Size25–40 m tall

Population~100 in wild

HabitatTemperate rainforest canyons

Range

Wollemi NP, NSW, Australia

Threats

Single small populationPhytophthora diseaseClimate changeBushfire

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The Wollemi pine's location is so secret that scientists are blindfolded and helicoptered in — fewer people have seen it than have walked on the Moon!

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