
Monkey Puzzle Tree 60-80cm tall excluding pot. 12 litre.
Araucaria Araucana Monkey Puzzle Tree 60-80 cm tall excluding the pot. Highest Quality, height at maturity 12 metres plus width a spread of 8 metres plus best position is in full sun.
Araucaria Araucana Monkey Puzzle Tree 60-80 cm tall excluding the pot. Highest Quality, height at maturity 12 metres plus width a spread of 8 metres plus best position is in full sun.
Monkey Puzzle Tree 12 Litre: 60-80cm tall, excluding pot. Araucaria are highly decorative evergreen trees from the Southern Hemisphere, with whorled branches bearing spirally arranged leaves that are needle-like, triangular or scale-like, they are extremely sharp, so take care when opening the box! Mature Monkey Puzzle trees can bear cones on upper branches.
What to Expect: These are well established very healthy plants planted in a large 12 Litre/30 cm pot. They stand at 60-80cm tall excluding the pot, whilst these plants are by nature unique your purchase will look very similar to the pictures.
Although Monkey Puzzle Trees are not particularly fast growing once established they will take up lots of space, please keep this in mind when planting, it is best kept away from paths where people might come into contact with the spikes, most importantly when considering a planting position is to put it somewhere where it can be seen and admired.
Planting position: Best suited to a sunny spot but will cope well in a partially shade area
Soil: Best planted in a moist well drained area tolerant to a wide range of soil types loam,sand or chalky.
Suitable for Container planting: Will cope in a pot whilst young but will need to be ground planted eventually.
Eventual height and spread: 12 metres with an 8 metre spread, however time to maturity can be more than 50 years
Pruning: No plants should be left to themselves
Growth speed: Relatively slow.
Growth Habit: Upright bushy tree
Flowering period: Not Applicable
Evergreen: Yes. Looks just as good during winter as it does in summertime
Winter Hardy: -20
This plant has no special requirements apart from water & sunshine.