Post #221716 by hewey on Sun, Mar 19, 2006 12:16 AM

Would you beleive that this was found within the mountain ranges that I can see outside my back window (where I am typing this right now). To give you an idea, my place is an hour from Sydney CBD - the largest city in Australia.

The pines are located within pretty harsh kinda bush, and was discovered by a group of canyoners. Its a few days hike into them. One of them thought the trees looked kinda cool and unique, and he hadn't seen any before. He took a sample back to botanist experts who confirmed that this species had never been documented. To this day only a handful of people know where they are.

To ensure the plants survival, they took samples and propogated them in nurseries in Sydney. They are gonna sell them commercially, which will prevent any people going into the location and getting their own samples to propogate. Very cool indeed. I know people who are mates with the people who found them. Its a pretty amazing story.