Nature

It's one of the most exciting discoveries of the 1900's and it's nearest relative is a 95-million-year old fossell.

The Wollemi Pine tree is being planted at Marks Hall 20 years after the Great Storm of 1987.

Professor Stephen Hopper, the Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, planted the first in a grove of Wollemi Pines, he said:

"I suspect it's going to grow like a house on fire as many Conifers like this can do, but you'll have to come back in 30 years to see how they're going."

Professor Stephen Hopper

The tree is one of the worlds rarest and was discovered in 1994.  It is a survivor of the family Arucariaceae which inhabited the earth in the time of dinosaurs, 200 million years ago.

Professor Hopper is excited about planting of the trees:

"Undoubtably insects will use it as a home, and birds will come in, and it will be used for some habitat, but it's such a new thing we don't understand any of it's ecological interactions off site from the wild population."

Listen to Professor Stephen Hopper talking to BBC Essex reporter Felicity Simper by clicking on the link below.