Mixed forest of Araucaria araucana (aka Monkey Puzzle Tree) and coigüe in Nahelbueta National Park, Chile: photo by Scott Zona, 27 November 2010
Had great trees great memories
Would that lifeform which has looked impassively down upon centuries of use
Recollect the gold and silver pilfered from the Andes
By vast slave armies to finance the high tables of the New World?
The cutting edge of history is once again the blade that slices
The tall cold man in the dark coat out of the cameraphone picture
Snapped beneath the exclusive restaurant portico
Under the iconic exotic imported monkey-puzzle tree
Whose large female cones, if left untrimmed, would like big coconuts sway
So dangerously from the limber concentrically radiating branches.
Araucaria araucana, beneath the Sierra Nevada, Parque Nacional Conguillío, Chile: photo by lautaroj, 31 December 2010
Araucaria araucana, along Lago Pulmari, Neuquén Province, Argentina: photo by Pruxo, 15 March 2007
Araucaria araucana (Monkey-Puzzle Tree, Pehuén) on the slopes of Volcan Llaima, Parque Nacional Conguillío, Chile: photo by William S. Kessler, 15 October 2005
Araucaria araucana, Curacautin, Chile: photo by Pato Novoa, 17 June 2009
Araucaria araucana, female cones developing: photo by MPF, 27 July 2005
Araucaria araucana, new green female cones: photo by Derrick Coetzee, 26 July 2009
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