Guess What I Am III

First clue-

Second-

Looks like a Norfolk Island pine, Araucaria heterophylla.
Mike

Okay, maybe not, now that I've seen the second picture. Hmm...
Mike

Close, very close.

cedrus libani?

Nope to Cedrus libani. Mike was close. The species photographed is more cold hardy than the heterophylla.

Angustifolia?

Nope ;)

I'm not great with conifers, but Cryptomeria japonica?

Alright, maybe a better guess, Araucaria columnaris?

OK, turns out to be a worse guess, like my initial thoughts were. But I was still fooled by the Cryptomeria like foilage.

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This one didn't have a plant stake with its name under it but I do happen to know what it is since it is growing quite happily in a zone 7. It is Araucaria araucana. I have got to stop loading so many all at the same time since I screwed up and originally said it wasn't because I had arborea on my mind. Oops.

edited to correct boo boo.

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Araucaria araucana? Looks kind of odd foliage-wise for that, but can't think of another one that would be happy in zone 7.

montana?

It is araucana. I edited the post before you just posted. I was in another photograph and had arborea on my mind when I should have had araucana on my mind.

Sorry claypa, it's not montana. You were posting when I was posting and I edited a post where I screwed up because kman_blue nailed it.

Taiwania flousiana or cryptomerioides. I think I uploaded a pic of it.

Are you sure? I had a program guide and it was listed over in that location but it sure does look like a dead match for Taiwania? Let me go check and see if JC Raulston even listed Taiwania.

I didn't find anything online for Taiwania yet but I did find an actual image on line from Raulston for Araucaria araucana-
http://www.raretrees.org/arau081.html

Hold your horses! You got it growin. I found the exact plant growing right where I photographed it because I specifically remember the brick which isn't showing well in my photo. Lookie what I found a photo of from JC Raulston-

http://www.ncsu.edu/jcraulstonarboretum/horticulture/now_showing/now_showing_photographs_details_individuals.php?ID=361

The plant in that spot is NOT Araucaria araucana but the Taiwan Coffin Cypress
(Taiwania cryptomerioides)

editing to try to fix link.

editing again to try to fix link to the Raulston photo-
http://www.ncsu.edu/jcraulstonarboretum/horticulture/now_showing/now_showing_photographs_details_individuals.php?ID=361

editing yet again to comment that the link previews perfectly well but once I post, it is toast. If you want to see the image, cut and paste the portion of the url outside the hyperlink then click on the hyperlink and add it to the url and it will appear.

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Oh jeepers, I wasn't even thinkin' Araucaria unless they grow A. heterphylla outside there. It certainly is a nice tree and the foliage is soft and Norfolk Island Pine-like. It's one that everyone should have in their front yard....if only someone would grow it. It sure looks like alot of treasures at the arboretum. Thanks for sharing! :-)

JC Raulston had some nice hardscapes and they also provided a magical area where people could get married. Interestingly enough, they had a lot of bizarre fishscapes hanging out of trees as well as a few that were half in and half out of the ground. Those fish thingies were hard to describe. One of them had big eyeballs that stared at you and was really weird. They had some really nice plants but they were also showcasing some plants that made me raise my eyebrow. The Arboretum that really seems to be coming up in the world these days is the NC Arboretum. That place is breathtakingly beautiful.

Definitely Taiwania cryptomerioides

Resin