We have a lovely indoor tree where I work. At first, I thought it was artificial but it's not. This tree has a fairly thorny trunk of about a 5cm diameter and the tree stands about six feet tall. At the top of the trunk there are five brancheslike spokes on the same level. As for the lower branches, they seem to have the same pattern. Each branch has many thorns and as the thorns grow toward the outside of the branches, the thorns flatten out and become flat, sharp, elongated leaves in the pattern similar to a fern - perhaps these are not leaves but large needles. Can any one help to to id the tree please?
Pictures worth one thousand words, id. Whoops. Hopefully al these photo attachments are all plants. I couldn't find my thread posted in early September but I'll have another go to see if someone can help id this tree please - I think it may be tropical, it IS indoors at my workplace.
Re: Pictures worth one thousand words, id. Thanks for the quick and helpful responses. After receiving the almost immediate response from jimmyq, I went to the internet and although I know next to nothing about plants, I decided that the tree was A. bidwillii, a South Pacific species named for botanist, John Carne Bidwill. I also discovered that Araucaia comes from the name of a province in Chile, Arauco. This is the first time I've used this site but I WILL be posting again as there seem to be so many knowledgable people posting replies to queries like mine.
It is a Araucaria bidwilli or Bunya Bunya pine- a native of Australia ( S.E. and N. Queensland). I hope this can help I dentify your strange looking tropical tree. Dogseadepression
