MONKEY PUZZLE
Sir.-In the Quiz Kids’ session on Friday, August 9, one of the questions was: What is the Monkey Puzzle? One contestant said something about Agathis arid Araucaria, and the Quizmaster when summing up said that the trees were not related as they belong to different families. As a matter of fact, they belong to the same family, the Pinaceae, but they are of different genera, The kauri belongs to the Agathis genus and
the Monkey Puzzle to the Arauraria. From Cheeseman’s New Zealand Flora we glean that Agathis is a "close relative" of Araucaria. The session would be more interesting if there were more questions in relation to New Zealand, especially about plants.
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(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 942, 30 August 1957, Page 11
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117MONKEY PUZZLE New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 942, 30 August 1957, Page 11
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