Ancient future - saving the Wollemi pine
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- čas přidán 25. 11. 2014
- It's 20 years since the historic discovery of the ancient Wollemi Pine in a remote ravine in the Wollemi National Park west of Sydney. With only 100 individual plants in the wild the Office of Environment and Heritage in collaboration with the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney and the Blue Mountain Botanic Garden has planted 200 advanced seedlings in a location in the Blue Mountains where conditions are close that of the existing wild colony. It's hope that this 'insurance colony' will be a back up should the original wild colony succumb to disease or any other major disturbance.
For more information about the Saving our species program and the Wollemi Pine www.environment.nsw.gov.au/Sav... - Věda a technologie
Such a wonderful story is the Wollemi pine. I love having this species and growing it.
Mine is 20 cm high germinated the seeds myself and the tree is doing great it is in a big pot now, Greetings from the Netherlands.
Any tips to germinate the seed successfully?
@@arfa07 i bought 3seeds and i first put Them in the fridge for two weeks then put Them in water for 24hours then i put Them on a moist tray and cover it with cling film.after some weeks one seed germinated the other two didn't germinated.
There might be video's how to geminate correctly but I germinate more seeds of other trees and i always do it this way.
@@guerillaguru8650 Perhaps a longer cold stratification is needed?
The seeds don't have a high germination rate. Usually just one of 10 is able to germinate. I bought a wollemi as a gift for my grandpa that was created by propagating cuttings. I think they're easier to propagate that way. Unfortunately, this means that the tree doesn't have a natural growth form because it doesn't have a tip (it will grow quite bushy instead of tree-like), but I'm just glad that I got one. That already took me 8 months because in my country just one person sells these trees and he was out of stock for 8 months because he gets them from England, which got very hard after Brexit.
So I'm very happy to have got one of these very rare trees (and I can always see it when visiting my grandparents), and the good thing is if my grandpa manages to keep the tree alive and make it grow, it will become more valuable, so it's also an investment for him apart from the botanical reasons to love this species.
So the gist is: If buying enough seeds is too expensive, consider buying a tree made from a cutting.
👍🕊️🇺🇲 Pacific Northwest.. Trees are my favorite.. I collect seeds from the native trees from my State, Washington..I have hugh Oak tree over hanging my patio, 2 years ago I planted 200 acorns maybe more! 🕊️
Mine is doing very well now 1 metre tall
How tall is it now?
@@oystein18 1.7M
@@auxtian Cool, they are slow growing?
Somebody better get a move on sending one of them pine cones to Svalbard seed bank.... in addition to everything else theyre doing
I collected the seeds of Wollemi Pine for the first time this fall. We plan to plant seeds next spring with reference to this wonderful video. There are about 2000 seeds, and since it is grown in Japan, which is hot and humid in the summer, I do not know if it can be cultivated well. We cannot grow a large number of Wollemi Pines in our small garden, so we think that if surplus seedlings grow, we can sell them only in Japan via the net. Please let me know if there are any legal issues.
How did you know when to harvest the seeds? I have several female seed cones on mine but have no idea when to collect
@@frankprenesti have you harvested seeds yet? I think you can wrap a net bag around the cone and wait for the seed to fall naturally.
@@arfa07 Thanks for responding - no I am wary of taking the cones off prematurely. It's winter here in the UK, so I don't know when time of year they should be harvested. The net bag is a great idea so I will try that.
Fantastic video. Thanks.
thanks
Great video! but the ranger who discovered the wollemi pine didn't find the tree, he was just hiking around the area and found a leaf he hadn't seen before, so he picked it up and went on his merry way. Over all great video and heaps of information.
Send me a seed to the USA please, we have Norfolk Pines they are closely related so if that can grow here so can the Wollemi Pine
There selling these in a local garden centre here in Ireland for € 80!! Banking in on extinction!
Banking in? They're very hard to grow, plus some of the money will go to conservation. Conmercial use of this species is helping conservation. And 80€ is a good price. I got one at 30cm height for 100€.
That's a beautiful plant. I'm not so sure it's the only prehistoric living plant thought.
And I'd love to have one in north america what's it's cold hardness anyone know. Does it shed its leaves like the bald cypress.
It's a humid sub-tropical climate in that area (Sydney) Wollemis would likely do well in cold climes.
EdiT: I was wrong, they can thrive in colder climes -
USDA Zone 9b: to -3.8 °C (25 °F)
USDA Zone 10a: to -1.1 °C (30 °F)
USDA Zone 10b: to 1.7 °C (35 °F)
USDA Zone 11: above 4.5 °C (40 °F)
Source - davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/57012/#b
The Wollemi pine is an evergreen. It is not the only pre historic plant, I know of at least one other, the Ginkgo Biloba.
I have one in my garden at home and it has some sort of disease I think. it is oozing sap everywhere and I dont know whats wrong with it. Please help me. if you know why my wollemi pine is sick then please tell me.
Is it dead yet
What kind person will give a couple of seeds ?! I would have raised, but this is a rarity in our country.
Maybe an online shop has one or maybe some shop in another country that will export to your country. I live in Germany, and even here it was quite tough to get my hands on a tree.
was it safe from these wildfires?
Yes, they made sure they didn’t get burnt down by taking preventative measures
We put a watering system in and fire retardant surrounding the trees
I think some got burnt a bit, but most were saved, also they can usually resprout after burning, as long as some part of the tree (usually the part of the trunk that's in the soil) was spared of very high temperatures.
I saw a few of them being sold in my local garden centre. I even checked the name on the label as I couldn’t believe it. They are quite expensive but not unreasonable. I guess they are no longer endangered?
In the wild they are endangered, but they're pretty save from extinction now as a whole because there are a lot of wollemis all over the world.
If instead of propagating the Wollemi Pines by any means necessary you just catalog and study them, you’ve already lost. I used to work at a botanical garden propagating plants for our collections. One of the arguments I used to hear was that they wanted to make more from seed because it helped with genetic diversity. However, the way I see it if you asexually propagate a plant, the chance of that plant spreading its genetic material out into the world goes up. Or to bring it more into the human realm: Your wife wants a baby but you travel out of town every two weeks. So you clone yourself and now there’s a version of you at your house every week. The odds of your genetic material being spread out into the world has gone up
Everything will be fine with wollemia, as well as metasequoia
Being a site that is a very well kept secret who’s to point the finger at for the phytophthora, nsw national parks?
There's absolutely no doubt that the phytophthora was brought in by bushwalkers who see the Wollemi Pine as a holy grail. The NPWS has always maintained a rigorous hygiene protocol since it was found for obvious reasons.
@luke Consider the fact that it's survived millions of years in a canyon and when discovered there was no Phytophora present and now there is.
@luke i know this because i was working for the NPWS when the plant was discovered and was involved to a certain extent. My best friend is the author of the book on the pine and i have the manuscript. There was no Phytophora present when it was found. all the plants were healthy so it stands to reason that the pathogen arrived post discovery and given the strict hygiene regime practised by scientists and field staff since discovery i would say the likelihood is that it was brought in by bush walkers who treated the pine as a holly grail determined to find it.