Today for #BiodiversityWeek, our curator Dr. Darach Lupton tells us some exciting news about the Wollemi pine, the new metacollection (a botanical collection shared by separate organisations but cared for collaboratively to research and conserve the species for the future). ‘The Wollemi pine has been dubbed the ‘dinosaur tree’ because fossil records show this incredible tree was living 200 million years ago alongside the dinosaurs. Thought to have become extinct between 70 and 90 million years ago, a chance discovery in 1994 revealed a small group of living trees in Australia and since then there has been an international effort to make sure the remaining species is not lost.
