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hoop pine

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hoop pine
a fast-growing timber tree of Australia, Araucaria cunninghamii, having rough bark with hoop-like cracks around the trunk and branches: family Araucariaceae


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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As you cruise into Nelly Bay, on Magnetic Island, granite outcrops tower over the harbour and tall, emerald-green hoop pines sway in the breeze.
Picnic areas abound and walking tracks crisscross the park, passing through a variety of vegetation including hoop pines, tall eucalypt forests and rainforests dominated by flooded gums.
The bower consists of twigs painted with mixtures of berry-juice saliva and hoop pine leaves, tobacco bush berries and charcoal.
 
 
 
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