On 20-Mar-2003, "P van Rijckevorsel" wrote:

Iris Cohen schreef
Is it thought to be suitable for bonsai? What is special about this
species? How is it related to other pines? Does it belong to the genus
Pinus? How would you grow it indoors?
Iris,

+ + +
If I understand the site right it offers the opportunity to vote for
having
the tree converted to bonsai! So it is up to you. If all the bonsai clubs
mobilize to vote for Wollemia bonsai, there will be!

As I understand Australia, "pine" there means a coniferous tree suitable
for
making masts of sailing ships. So the one requirement a conifer has to
meet
to be a pine (in Australia) is size. Taxonomic relationship has no bearing
on shipbuilding qualities and thus not on names.

PvR

One reason for the British settlement in Australia was to provide stores for
the navy using Norfolk Island Pines for masts and New Zealand flax (Phormium
tenax) for sails and ropes. The Norfold Island Pines, it turned out, were
too weak for masts and the New Zealand Flax industry never came to anything.
These were the first of a long series of failed primary industries.
--
Bob Vickery