Araucaria araucana

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Araucaria araucana

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Genus Araucaria

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wild or cultivated


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Araucaria imbricata Pav. CHILIAN PINE. MONKEY PUZZLE. Southern Chili. The seeds are eaten by the Indians, either fresh, boiled or roasted, and from them is distilled a spirituous liquor [1]. Eighteen good-sized trees will yield enough for a man's sustenance all the year round [2].

  1. Gordon, G. Pinetum 41. 1875.
  2. Pickering, C. Chron. Hist. Pls. 812. 1879.


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