 Bidwill brought a live specimen to London where it was studied and named "Araucaria bidwillii" after him by English botanist William Jackson Hooker in the 1843 "London Journal of Botany".Bidwill also is credited with discovery of "Agathis robusta" (the Dammara or Queensland kauri pine) and the "Nymphaea gigantea".In 1851, while marking out a new road to the Moreton Bay district, Bidwill became separated from his colleagues and was lost without food for eight days.