Royal Melbourne Botanic Gardens: Seven rare New Caledonian tropical conifers.

This week on The Horti-Culturalists, the third in our four part series of videos made in the wonderful Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. And in this episode, a group of plants CLOSE to Stephen's heart: tropical conifers! And particularly the conifers from New Caledonia, a Pacific island with an extraordinary array of unique plants. This group of trees is oddly cold tolerant, given where they're from, and also make brilliant indoor plants! And stay to end when Stephen describes a WEIRD conifer of New Caledonia which is the only parasitic one in the world! If you want to watch our other videos from the Botanic gardens you can here:    • ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS MELBOURNE   If you'd like to watch our video from the native plant Royal Botanic Garden at Cranbourne you can here:    • Australian native species garden visit: Ro...   And the video we made in the System Garden at the University of Melbourne you can see here:    • Melbourne University garden tour: the Syst...   The trees we mention in this video are: Agathis robusta the Queensland kauri Araucaria montana Araucaria columnaris - the Captain Cook pine Araucaria cunninghamii - the hoop pine Araucaria rulei Agathis lanceolata Agathis moorei