The Wollemi tree thrived hundreds of millions of years ago, and was thought to have disappeared some 90 million years ago — but a chance discovery brought it back, and it’s now thriving in Britain as Annunciata Elwes reports.
Saplings of rare Wollemi pine trees dating back to the time of the dinosaurs have been shipped to 34 locations around the world — 28 in the UK and Europe — for the first phase of a ‘metacollection’ initiative to protect the species from…
