The oldest known fossil of Wthe ollemia genus dates back to 90 million years ago, but since the most recent fossil is a mere 2 million years old, it was assumed this sect of pines were extinct. Then in 1994, David Noble found some hiking in Australia.
One of the oldest and rarest trees in the world, this specimen of Wollemi Pine is growing at the Amsterdam Botanical Gardens
Wollemia is a genus of coniferous tree in the family Araucariaceae. The Australian species Wollemia nobilis is the sole species in the genus Wollemia and was discovered in 1994 in a remote series of narrow, steep-sided sandstone gorges near Lithgow in temperate rainforest wilderness area of the Wollemi National Park in New South Wales, 150 kilometres north-west of Sydney.
