A RARE pine tree described as one of the greatest botanical discoveries of the 20th Century has found its way to a Lake District greenhouse - and is acclimatising well.
The Wollemi Pine - Wollemia nobilis - existed on earth up to 200 years ago and was until recently classed as extinct.
Prof Bob Haszeldine, who lives in Chapel Stile, is one of a select band of people across the globe who is experimenting with how the tree responds to living in different conditions.
Perhaps surprisingly, the tree taken from one of fewer than 100 discovered in an unexplored deep canyon in the Wollemi National Park, Australia, has done "very well".
Prof Haszeldine, whose garden is packed with a variety of unusual plants, said he got a cutting from a man who brought the plant from the southern hemisphere.
For full story see May 18 Westmorland Gazette.
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