hoop pine

English

Etymology

The tree's bark has horizontal bands resembling hoops (compare image).

Noun

hoop pine (plural hoop pines)

1. Araucaria cunninghamii, a tree of eastern Australia and New Guinea. [from 19th c.]
   • 1984, David Malouf, A First Place, Vintage, published 2015, page 6:

     The key colour is green, and of a particular density: the green of mangroves along the riverbanks, of Moreton Bay figs, of the big trees that are natives of this corner of Queensland, the shapely hoop-pines and bunyas that still dominate the skyline along every river.