This piece was made with Monkey Puzzle, I used bone across the top.
This tree was damaged by hurricane Wilma (Botanical Garden in Palm Beach Florida) and didn't survive. It is native to central Chile and west central Argentina, and is an evergreen tree growing to 40 m tall and 2 m trunk diameter. Because of the species' age it is sometimes described as a living fossil. Araucaria araucana is the national tree of Chile.
The origin of the popular English name Monkey-puzzle derives from its early cultivation around 1850, when the species was still very rare in gardens and not widely known. In Florida this tree is only found in Botanical Gardens. A monkey, trying to climb this tree would be injured by the spiky leaf points so it would be a puzzle. However, monkeys are not found in the species' native range . In Britain, it had been known somewhat puzzling as "Joseph Bank's Pine" or "Chile Pine", as it is not a pine. The spiky leaves of the monkey puzzle were never evolved to stop monkeys, but rather to stop grazing dinosaurs eating it before it could grow out of their reach.
The origin of the popular English name Monkey-puzzle derives from its early cultivation around 1850, when the species was still very rare in gardens and not widely known. In Florida this tree is only found in Botanical Gardens. A monkey, trying to climb this tree would be injured by the spiky leaf points so it would be a puzzle. However, monkeys are not found in the species' native range . In Britain, it had been known somewhat puzzling as "Joseph Bank's Pine" or "Chile Pine", as it is not a pine. The spiky leaves of the monkey puzzle were never evolved to stop monkeys, but rather to stop grazing dinosaurs eating it before it could grow out of their reach.
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