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“Derrik and I saw areas where there was the potential to add new dimensions,” Comstock says of the understory absent beneath towering araucaria trees.

As more of it was exposed, we could clearly see that the fish’s two-foot-long snout had broken when it was forced—probably by the flood’s surge—against the branches of a submerged araucaria tree.

And they don't have the flamboyant crowns of the araucaria.

It is laid down with matting and rugs, and standing here and there are flowering plants and two fine araucarias.

The cypresses, araucarias and some other genera have no true bud-scales; in some species, e.g.