TRURO The world’s oldest species of tree has surprised botanists by producing seeds in Britain. The 2 million-year-old Wollemi Pine was thought to be extinct – and had been identified only from fossils – when a crop of 100 trees was found in Australia in 1994.

Now a Wollemi at Tregothnan Gardens in Cornwall has become the first in the Northern Hemisphere to produce cones, right. Officially closed for winter, the gardens will open this weekend for visitors to see the tree. Jonathon Jones, the gardens’ director, who said the pine was an “unbelievable sight”, hopes to raise seedlings.

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