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Rowan Lyr Req: The Trees Have Now Gone (John Williamson) (8) RE: Lyr Req: The Trees Have Now Gone (John William 25 Mar 10


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Brigalow
Brigalow (Acacia harpophylla) is a species of silvery wattle that gives the mosaic of open forest and woodland communities known as the Brigalow Belt (in Queensland) its name. The canopy is usually 10-15m in height, and the dominant tree species that may occur with Brigalow include Belah, Gidgee, Lancewood or Bendee.

Box
a category of eucalypts and close relatives, particularly Angophora
Eucalypt Bark characteristics
Stringybark — consists of long fibres and can be pulled off in long pieces. It is usually thick with a spongy texture.
Ironbark — is hard, rough and deeply furrowed. It is impregnated with dried kino (a sap exuded by the tree) which gives a dark red or even black colour.
Tessellated — bark is broken up into many distinct flakes. They are corkish and can flake off.
Box — has short fibres. Some also show tessellation.
Ribbon — this has the bark coming off in long thin pieces but still loosely attached in some places. They can be long ribbons, firmer strips or twisted curls.

Boonery
Alectryon oleifolius
Description: Small tree with new growth silky, branches and leaves usually pendent. Widespread in semi-arid areas, west from upper Hunter Valley.

Belah
Casuarina cristata Miq.
Family Casuarinaceae
Common name: Belah, Muurrgu
Description: Dioecious tree 10–20 m high, frequently producing suckers.
Branchlets drooping in vigorous specimens, spreading in depauperate specimens. Often found in association with brigalow. Usually grows on clayey soils with calcareous nodules near the surface. Mostly inland, from central Qld south to Temora, NSW.

SuppleJack
Flagellaria indica
From tropical Queensland. Also called 'Whip Vine', this is a fast and vigorous climber with a round, cane-like stem and long leaves. The long leaves are unusual as their tips have been modified into tendrils to enable the plant to curl its way through the canopy. It is found in mangroves and forests in eastern and the wetter tropical areas of the old world tropics, and is common in places such as along the Marrdja boardwalk.

Leopard wood
Flindersia maculosa is a tree in the citrus family. It is found in arid and semi arid areas in New South Wales and Queensland, Australia. Because of the spotted bark, it is known as the Leopardwood or Leopard Tree.
The habitat is stony hills and sand plains. It can grow in areas with an annual average rainfall of less than 250 mm, such as at Mutawintji National Park, NSW.
An elegant small tree, up to 15 metres tall. The bark sheds irregularly resulting in a mottled trunk. Leaves are opposite, small and narrow. This gives the foliage a wispy appearance. Leaves 10 to 80 mm long, and 2.5 to 10 mm wide.
Small cream flowers form around November. The fruit is a spiky woody capsule 2.5 cm long, which opens to release the seeds. Seeds are around 1.8 cm long with a thin winged membrane on both ends.

Myall
Weeping Myall Acacia pendula
Description: Pendulous tree to 10 m, usually upright, occasionally spreading, with grey, narrow phyllodes to 8 cm. Yellow ball-shaped flowers appear in spring.
Distribution: semi-arid areas of Qld, NSW, Vic.

Western myall (Acacia sowdenii Maiden 1919), a "graceful and attractive" (Jackson 1958), "handsome" (Cleland 1930) tree, extends from Port Augusta in a band across the western arid rangelands of South Australia (see Boomsma 1972 p. 45) and continues as a minor fringe south and west of the Nullarbor Plain. At least 80,000 square kilometres of sheep station paddocks are western myall-bluebush (Kochia spp.)-saltbush (Atriplex spp.) woodland, and the pioneering "Yudnapinna" grazing experiment was on this rangeland type (Woodroffe 1941). Continuous pastoralism for 100 years shows that western myall woodland is accepted by graziers as an adequate base for successful pastoral enterprise. Station size there averages about 1,300 square kilometres, with stocking rates and wool returns north of the Gawler Ranges now averaging about 6 sheep and 0.2 bales/square km respectively, and south about 10 sheep and 0.3 bales.

[Myall is also one of the names applied by white settlers, in what was to become NSW, to the original inhabitants north and west of Sydney. For many in my area, the Myall Creek Massacre is still a painful event.]

Wilga
Geijera parviflora. RUTACEAE (Rue & citrus family)
Wilga is a small shade tree growing to about 20 feet with very attractive weeping foliage. Although the leaves may be up to 6 inches long they are no more than 1/4 inch wide. The small whitish flowers are not very conspicuous. Wilga grows in dry areas of all Australian states, where the sheep enjoy nibbling the leaves while squatting on their haunches.

Hope that helps.

Cheers, Rowan


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