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bunya

a tall dome-shaped Australian coniferous tree, Araucaria bidwillii, having edible cones (bunya nuts) and thickish flattened needles

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It contains stands of wonderful dry rainforest featuring huge curling vines--so big and thick that you could sit on them like a swing--massive buttress roots and giant crows nest ferns adorning the prehistoric-looking Bunya Pines. I was in heaven drawing these shapes and in the end I created the story of Leaf Tail which takes place in this very forest.

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