Hoop Pine

About

A tall emergent conifer of subtropical rainforest that can grow to 60m and live for up to 450 years. Confirmed growing at Enoggera Creek near The Gap, and recorded in the plant list for Kondalilla National Park alongside piccabeen palms and casuarinas.

How to spot it

Rough, banded bark that splits and peels naturally. Young trees have soft, awl-shaped leaves; mature trees switch to small, scale-like, incurved leaves. Easy to spot poking up above the rainforest canopy as a distinct emergent conifer, unlike the broadleaf trees around it.

Found in

• Enoggera Reservoir
• Kondalilla NP
• Picnic Point / Tabletop Range
• Gold Creek Reservoir / Enoggera