hoop pine

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The tree's bark has horizontal bands resembling hoops (compare image).^[1]

hoop pine (plural hoop pines)

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.
- 2018, Melissa Lucashenko, Too Much Lip, University of Queensland Press, published 2023, page 27:
  Kerry floated on her back in the Caledonian River, looking skyward through the limbs of Granny Ava's hoop pine.

^ J. F. Rock (1917) The Ornamental Trees of Hawaii, →OCLC, page 7: “The bark of this tree is quite characteristic, having the appearance of horizontal bands, whence it derived its name Hoop Pine.”