The tree is Araucaria bidwillii, otherwise known as a bunya pine. The tree produces male pollen cones and female seed cones. The female seed cones can get up to a foot in diameter. In the fall Araucaria bidwillii apparently uses the seed cones to crush hapless passersby.
A denizen of San Francisco on their smart phone, unaware they just narrowly survived an encounter with the killer Araucaria bidwillii |
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