{"id":9541,"date":"2018-01-24T12:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T17:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=9541"},"modified":"2017-12-17T18:48:42","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T23:48:42","slug":"uniquely-different-monkey-puzzle-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2018\/01\/24\/uniquely-different-monkey-puzzle-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Uniquely Different Monkey Puzzle Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9542\" style=\"width: 211px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Araucaria-VAN.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9542\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9542\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Araucaria-VAN-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Araucaria-VAN-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Araucaria-VAN-768x1147.jpg 768w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Araucaria-VAN-685x1024.jpg 685w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9542\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monkey Puzzle Tree in Vancouver, BC<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_9543\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Araucaria1-VAN.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9543\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9543\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Araucaria1-VAN-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Araucaria1-VAN-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Araucaria1-VAN-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Araucaria1-VAN-1024x685.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9543\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Closeup of scale-like foliage<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Monkey puzzle tree or Chilian pine<em> (Araucaria araucana<\/em>) is an evergreen conifer that is native to forested volcanic slopes of\u00a0the Andes Mountains in Chile and Argentina (USDA Zone 7b-11). It is the national tree of Chile. Monkey puzzle typically grows to 60-70 feet tall and 30-35 feet wide, but may reach heights greater than 100 feet in its native habitat.<\/p>\n<p>It displays a unique loose pyramidal form when young, but develops a rounded canopy along with loss of the lower branches as the tree ages. Horizontal, upward-arching branches are arranged in whorls around the trunk. Bark is gray-brown and ridged.<\/p>\n<p>On the straight trunk, 2-inch long evergreen leaves are glossy, dark green, triangular-shaped, sharp tipped, and closely overlap one another. Individual leaves are leathery and may persist for 10 &#8211; 15 years. The horizontal branches are produced in tiers and develop few side branches.<\/p>\n<p>Trees are dioecious (separate male and female trees). The female cones are globular and up to 8 inches in diameter; male cone is cylindrical and up to 5 inches long. Seeds (<em>pinones<\/em>) are edible and reminiscent of pine nuts.<\/p>\n<p>It is best grown in deep, moderately fertile, evenly moist, well-drained soils and in full sun to part shade. Trees perform well in a variety of different soils as long as sites\u00a0are well-drained. Trees perform much better in mild summers than in hot climates. In northerly areas, trees may be grown in containers and brought indoors overwinter in bright indirect sunlight.<\/p>\n<p>The tree is rarely troubled by serious insect or disease problems. Needle necrosis and leaf spots. Mealybugs, scales and thrips are occasional pests.<\/p>\n<p>Monkey puzzle is related Norfolk Island pine (<em>A. heterophylla<\/em>), a popular house plant seen for sale at garden shops during the winter holiday season in the U\u2019S. and Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monkey puzzle tree or Chilian pine (Araucaria araucana) is an evergreen conifer that is native to forested volcanic slopes of\u00a0the Andes Mountains in Chile and Argentina (USDA Zone 7b-11). It is the national tree of Chile. Monkey puzzle typically grows to 60-70 feet tall and 30-35 feet wide, but may reach heights greater than 100 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[710,645,800,946,1388,729,630,767,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9541"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9552,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9541\/revisions\/9552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}