Branches should be protected and only pruned if dead wood appears. Dead branches are hard to work on but will cause the tree to decline if not removed. Monkey Puzzle in Europe Monkey-puzzle was ...

Araucaria araucana (Monkey Puzzle), a southern South American tree species of exceptional cultural and economic importance, is of conservation concern owing to extensive historical clearance and ...

Despite the singular absence of any monkeys for the tree to puzzle in its Chilean homeland, it was not long before “monkey puzzler” and then “monkey puzzle” entered the vernacular and stuck.

The towering Araucaria araucana, commonly called the monkey puzzle tree, was bought as a sapling from Woolworths in Wellington in the 1970s by Don's mother, who paid just 7/6d. It was planted in ...

Monkey puzzle trees (Araucaria araucana) are so rare the trading in their wood is banned. Yet, because a new Welsh medium primary school is being built close to the tree, councillors have been ...