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William Tate explores the major trees around Durham, starting with the Monkey Puzzle outside the Billy B.

Ron Dorman—Bruce Coleman Inc. A hike along Australia’s Great Dividing Range would reveal a series of plateaus and low mountain ranges roughly paralleling the coasts of Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria. The mountain range extends some 2,300 miles (3,700 km) from the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, to the Grampians in Victoria Bass Strait between Australia and Tasmania. In Queensland, the mountains average is 2,000–3,000 feet (600–900 meters) in elevation, but they rise as high...

© Supplied Archibald Menzies introduced the monkey puzzle tree to the UK. Sign up for our newsletter and let our nostalgia team take you on a trip back in time Thank you for signing up to our Nostalgia newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up The distinctively spiky monkey puzzle tree, now an endangered species, was introduced to the UK in 1795 by Perthshire plant collector Archibald Menzies. Gayle Ritchie explores Menzies’s life and legacy and looks at the f...