Araucaria Pines by junge1
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Description
These Araucaria Pines, or monkey-puzzle trees are located on the slope of Volcan Llaima (3125m). They started to appear at an elevation of about 4,000-ft. Volcan Llaima is located inside the more than 60,000 hectares Parque Nacional Conguillio which was created in 1950.
Araucaria pines, or monkey-puzzle trees are known to Spanish-speakers as 'the umbrella' (paragua) because of their unusual shape. The Mapuche (Indians), who named it the pehuen, have traditionally gathered nuts from its cones as food.
Visible in the center of the picture is the snow-covered cone of the vulcano.
This picture was taken on 28 December 2003.
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Comments (16)
sharky_
Very nice and interesting pine tree. Always nice to see a place away from the cement world. Excellent shot. Aloha
ledwolorz
Very interesting pine tree.Fantastic shot.
kenwas
Super image!
mizoli
Beautiful landscape!
jeroni
fantastic..wonderful lighting
tennesseecowgirl
Never seen trees like these, wonderful.
durleybeachbum
Wonderful to see them in the right place instead of in British cemeteries!
timtripp
wow! your post are like old and new issues of national geographic magazine combined. phenomenal!
mairekas
WOW! Very interesting trees!
Hendesse
Great shot of this beautiful landscape. Light and colors are wonderful!
CavalierLady
What unusual trees! The look very ancient and like a scene from the tv show "Walking With Dinosaurs"! Very interesting!
Colin
Yes, if it wasn't for the grass on the ground, this would be a perfect setting for a dinosaur image!
JeffG7BRJ
I have one of these growing in my front garden, it was the only tree my daughter used to recognise when she was tiny and we bought her one when she was about two years old. I uploaded a picture of it yesterday, my daughter is now 21 years old. I must save this as a favourite to show her, she has just gone out with her boyfriend so I will show her when she returns. Excellent capture, to see so many at once is fantastic. Bravo!!!!!
Janiss
Absolutely splendid... I adore this landscape Sig!
MrsLubner
I am captivated by this. The scene is prehistoric on its own but the closer study of these trees is well worth the zoom. Wow.
jocko500
like another world lol and so many too. wonderful shot