Araucaria araucana

[damir]

chilean pine tree. very unusual look. cold hardy to -20 C.

[igor.glukhovtsev]

Here is a one growing at one private property not so far from my place. Has survived a few cold winters in Almaty. Doesn't look very healthy but it has see many days of prolonged frees down to minus 25 - minus 27 C.

[damir]

it looks ok, for that cold.lower branches might die,but most of the plant looks ok to me. there is one more cold hardy cultivar called araucaria araucana "gheri robusta", to -25C. it has light green leaves,some of those are grown in ukraine,very well. leaves of a.a. live up to 15 years, longest of all plants.

[igor.glukhovtsev]

There are 2-3 regions of Ukraine were A.a. can be cultivated: Uzhgorod (z7), Odessa (z7) and South coast of Crimea (z8-9)... I'd like to have the one in my garden but it's seldom imported to Kazakhstan.