Araucaria bidwillii Hook.

Trees to 50 m tall; trunk to 1 m d.b.h.; bark dark gray-brown, thick, flaking; crown pyramidal; branchlets dense, pendulous, green, glabrous. Leaves radially spreading, bright green, lanceolate, ovate-lanceolate, or triangular-ovate, flattened, slighty incurved, hard, thick, leathery, lacking a midvein but with numerous, parallel, thin veins, stomatal lines abaxial; leaves of same year dimorphic: those of young trees and vegetative branchlets longer (0.7-2.8 cm) and more loosely arranged than those of old trees and cone-bearing branchlets, those at middle of branchlets 2.5-6.5 cm, apex acuminate or acute. Pollen cones axillary, solitary, cylindric. Seed cones ovoid-subglobose, ca. 30 × 22 cm; bracts oblong-elliptic or oblong-ovate, margin relatively thick, wingless, apex triangular, reflexed; seed scales thickened, exposed at apex. Seeds elongate-elliptic, wingless. Pollination Jun, seed maturity after autumn of 3rd year.

It is a subtropical plant. It is native to Queensland, Australia. They grow naturally in rainforest in Queensland, Australia. They can grow in tropical, subtropical and temperate regions. It suits humid locations. They need a moist well drained soil. In Nepal they grow at 1200-1300 m altitude. It cannot tolerate frost. It suits hardiness zones 9-11. Arboretum Tasmania. In Adelaide Botanical Gardens. Hobart Botanical Gardens. Launceston City Park. In Yunnan.

The seeds are roasted and eaten. The germinating seed produces an underground earth nut that has a coconut flavour and is eaten.

Plants are grown from seed. Seed should only be half covered with soil. Plants can also be grown from cuttings of upright shoots of young plants. They can also be grown from suckers near the base.