Good pines, bad pines

And this will make sclerotic_rings cry.

First - the good. My mother is buying us a Wollemi Pine for the garden next year (although I'll have to check that this area is suitable).

Then the bad - http://abc.net.au/science/news/enviro/EnviroRepublish_1497961.htm (courtesy of dewhitton

The only wild population of the precious Wollemi pine is under threat from a fungus that has already wiped out other trees, Australian experts say.

And unauthorised visitors to a remote valley west of Sydney probably brought the fungus with them when they visited the 'secret' home of these Jurassic-era relics.

gits.