The Wollemi Pine by James Woodford

What a tale. The story reads like a detective story, with information given about the characters as they go about their search and identification of the pine tree discovered in the Blue Mountains in 1974, alongside the most incredible and involving detail about the beginnings of time in Australia, its flora and fauna, and most incredibly, the sex life of pines.
The journalistic style suits the story. It is a tale so engrossing that I couldn't stop reading. 
Fran Knight