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.

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 ...

The tree was said to detract from an historic view A 110-year-old monkey puzzle tree has been felled, to the dismay of campaigners who fought to save it. It was planted in the Grade II-listed ...

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 ...

Pieces of Mahon's monkey puzzle tree, which was irreparably damaged by ... and a few said they would put a clock into the wood and give it to someone as a Christmas gift. "Another girl came ...

As for the tree itself, the wood of the Monkey Puzzle is valued by woodturners and sculptors and could be salvaged to further commemorate a family and a tree that is remembered fondly in Cork.