A tall evergreen tree native to South America and Australia, with distinctive branches that look almost like a candelabra or geometric puzzle.
Named by Linnaeus after the Araucania region of Chile, where the trees were native and well-known to indigenous and Spanish populations. The scientific name honors the geographic origin of these remarkable conifers.
Araucaria trees are living fossils—their lineage goes back 200 million years to when dinosaurs roamed Earth, and they're so geometrically perfect that some people keep them as living houseplants!
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