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28th December 2007, 03:56 AM
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| PDF King & Arborist Extrodinaire  Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Townsville Nth Queensland & Gold Coast Sth Queensland
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|  Re: E. grandis Those E. grandis are quite special, we don't get many up here I love visiting them down around Brissy and the SE.  
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28th December 2007, 01:54 PM
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| Banned Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Earth Australia
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| Re: E. grandis Veeeery nice.  E.grandis do not occur naturally in the Illawarra....but there are planted trees the Botanic Gardens and at the University of Wollongong. (The Myall Lakes is about as far south as it occurs). Instead we see E.saligna....mostly as intergrades (with E.botryoides)....but sometimes in pure stands (only on the upper escarpment)..... In this region, the 'most-closely resembling' species would be the pure E.saligna. |
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28th December 2007, 10:43 PM
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| Semi-mature vigorous tree Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Sydney
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| Re: E. grandis Azrael, I don't know i you have ever walked up the Williams River track in Barrington Tops NP, but there are some astounding trees there. According to the NPWS they are "Sydney blue gums", which means saligna. I wasn't sure whether they were grandis or saligna. Many of them are about 60m in height, towering above the rainforest understorey. Some of the turpentines there are almost as tall. When you look at them you think they could challenge the Grandis. |
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28th December 2007, 11:16 PM
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| Banned Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Earth Australia
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| Re: E. grandis I have not been to Barrington Tops...it is on my places-to-go list though.... You seem to know your trees well enough....and Eucalypts are the hardest of all to differentiate. E.saligna here reach about 40m max. Turpentines are common too ... but never as tall...the tallest forest trees are probably the E.quadrangulata (Coast White Box) which get to 45m (at least that the tallest I've seen). The leaves are distinctively narrow and with many oil glands at the margin giving an very irregular notched leaf edge (classic for ID)...and they have boxy bark to the small branches and are generally sparse in the crown compared to to other Eucalypts.. Leaves almost appear as though chewed at the edges. I will have to get decent photo to post....the ones I have are too dark. Oh...I found these ones ...taken for pruning specs...but none-the less shows bark and foliage OK. Last edited by azrael : 29th December 2007 at 12:03 AM. Reason: Tree photo and leaf photo |
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