Photo from the helicopter trip The Doc took at Lorella Spring Station, North Territory. There are still some gems in the photo library. The day was very overcast, on the trip we visited various lost cities (rock formations), then flew down the river to visit The Gulf of Carpentaria. The Doc still needs to properly sort the images from this helicopter trip.
The helicopter landed on the beach to the right and we explored and then had morning tea.
Look carefully and you can see a duck attacking the one taking off, you can just see the top of its head. Tevan Swamp, Ballina, Northern NSW.
It was harder to find the common name for this tree than the previous one. Mt Annan Botanic Gardens called it Eucalyptus inversa, The Doc finally found other names including Eucalyptus inversa, Eucalyptus irritans, Eucalyptus israelitica, Eucalyptus kessellii subsp kessellii, Eucalyptus goniantha or the Jerdacuttup Mallee. The Doc chose the Brooker taxon of Eucalyptus kessellii subsp kessellii.
Mt Annan Botanic Gardens referred to this as Corymbia cafie, a little used name. It took The Doc some time to find the more commonly used name of Corymbia hendersonii or Henderson’s bloodwood.
A rare cross hydrid, the Brachychiton populneus x acerifolius. Unusual green bark because when young this tree can photosynthesie on its trunk, not just the leaves, hence the green colour.
Commonly known as Rosewood or Rose Mahogany.
Bark of the Fraser Island Turpentine, which is heavily textured with deep furrows and hills on the trunk. This tree was 10.51 metres high. Bark varies greatly on each specimen.
Arguably the rarest tree in the world, at least in the wild, the Wollemi Pine. There is a handful of specimens still alive, all genetically identical. Zero genetic variation in the population means they all come from the same tree.
You can buy them in a nursery, because after its discovery in 1996 the NSW Botanic Gardens set about growing it in quantity through nurseries, to reduce the risk of people looking for the few trees in the wild. It was only previously known from the fossil record.
This is the bark on an immature tree 3.93 metres high, from the NSW Botanic Gardens.
The bark of Callistemon shiressii, another very rare plant. There is a lot variation in the bark appearance between different trees. It does not have a common name, as it is uncommon!
Callistemon salignus more commonly known as the White Bottlebrush.
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