#evergreen trees
Chilling.
MONKEY PUZZLE
(Araucaria araucana)
Rozwadowski, J. 2009. “Royal Botanic Gardens - Kew - Monkey Puzzle Tree“
More graciously known as the Chilean pine, the story behind the monkey puzzle begins at Pencarrow Gardens, Cornwall. Around 50 years after the tree was introduced to Britain by the botanist Archibald Menzies in 1975, a man named Charles Austin commented after seeing a specimen at Pencarrow that “It would puzzle a monkey to climb that.” He really should have picked another animal, because the name’s here to stay despite the fact that Chile has no monkeys!
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Forest time
you’re so perfect standing there
“Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.”—Anne Carson
