What’s the craic with this tree?



This one particular tree in Botanic Gardens, outside the museum, had better security than the Northern Bank in 2004. What's the reason?

by LetMeBe_Frank_

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  1. The trees in Moville in Donegal are surrounded by cages. My kids asked me why and I said they were to stop them running away. I explained that if they ever made it into the forest no one could find them again.

    They were just at the age where they couldn’t quite figure out if I was joking.

  2. It’s a critically endangered species. Probably somewhere under 2000 in the world.

    Specifically Wollemia nobilis, an Australian native, where most of them are.

    There’s a couple of endangered species around Botanic, but this is the closest to extinct.

  3. Wollemi Pine. Used to be common across the rainforests of what is now Antarctica. Survives in remote Australian valleys. It’s the plant equivalent of a living dinosaur!

  4. You know how humans go in those cages to observe sharks? Yes, same principle. Don’t rattle the cage, you’ll scare it.

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