Araucaria angustifolia

Brazilian Pine or Monkey Tree is an evergreen conifer of narrow, pyramidal habit in youth, which becomes flat top with age. The leaves are thick, tough and scale-like. It is usually dioecious, with the male and female cones on separate trees. The male cones are oblong, 6 cm long at first, expanding to 10–18 cm long by 15–25 mm broad at pollen release. Like all conifers it is wind pollinated. The female cones, which mature in autumn about 18 months after pollination, are globose, large, 18–25 cm in diameter, and hold about 100–150 seeds. The cones disintegrate at maturity to release the approximately 5 cm long nut-like seeds, which are similar to a large pine nut, and are edible and extensively harvest in southern Brazil.