or pine cone, fell from a coniferous Araucaria bidwillii tree and landed on his head. The Araucaria bidwillii, native to Australia and better known as a bunya pine or false monkey puzzle tree ...

However, in spite of all its beauty, the tall Araucaria bidwillii produces football-sized cones weighing up to 24 pounds that can be very harmful if they drop on unsuspecting people beneath the tree.

A U.S. Navy veteran is suing after a 16-pound pine cone fell on his head and damaged his skull at a federal park in San Francisco, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Sean Mace visited the San ...

The bunya pine tree - or araucaria bidwillii - is native to Australia ... "The tree recently dropped several large oval-shaped pine cones, measuring 350mm in diameter, and weighing approximately ...

A tourist visiting the Bay Area for Fleet Week last year was doing nothing more than reading and napping under a tree in a federal waterfront park in San Francisco when a 16-pound pine cone fell ...

Bunya pine cone, come on down! It's dropping season for the large soft-shelled cones, which fall from the canopy of the native Araucaria bidwillii, a close relative of the prehistoric Wollemi pine.

The biggest cone of any conifer is from the bunya pine (Araucaria bidwillii) from Queensland. The soccerball-sized cones each contain 50-100 large seeds and weigh up to 10kg – when they drop 40m ...

Of all the araucarias my favourite is the bunya bunya pine Araucaria bidwillii. It's a beautifully shaped tree and really dramatic in the landscape. It produces extraordinary cones which can ...

The tree that caused Mace’s injuries was a coniferous Araucaria bidwillii tree, where its pine cones can grow up to 16 inches wide and weigh up to 40 pounds. “First and foremost, the Park ...