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Araucaria balansae, Brongn. & Gris. (A. elegans, Hort. Bull.). A dwarf-growing species of slow growth (when grown as a pot-plant) and with few loosely arranged .tiers of branches, usually 5 in a tier; branchlets distichous, narrow and deflexed with age: Lvs. imbricated, short, stiff; ⅛ in. long, falcate, more or less obtuse, dark olives-green in color: male cones cylindrical-conical, 2-3 in. long; female cones globose or elliptic, 4 in. long. New Caledonia.—Rarely grown. The narrowest and most slender-branched species in cult.
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