The Woodford Tree, a young giant
Today I walked to the Woodford Tree, 15 years after last being there. It is huge, a staggering sight, a giant. In 1978 it was measured at 78 metres tall. Bigger than "The Grandis". Today I measured the diameter at breast height, 2.5 metres. The tree was re-measured in 2010 by Dr. Dean Nicolle at 71 metres. The tree has been climbed and measured with a drop rope at 69 metres tall.
This tree is surrounded by other species. Rainforest on one side, and turpentine/angophora above on the ridge. They're mostly 25 metres tall or less. There are no other Eucalyptus deanei to be seen when near the big tree. Not senescent, a healthy tree.
It's an isolated giant on the edge of a rainforest. Some of the trees in the rainforest are large. 30 metres tall or thereabouts. Mostly Coachwood and Common Sassafras. Also tall nearby is Acacia elata, a common tree in moist areas in the Blue Mountains.
Named by Maiden after his friend. Joseph Maiden said this about his railway friend and engineer "I name it in honour of my old friend Henry Deane, M.A., M. Inst. C.E., Engineer-in-Chief for Railway Construction of this State, my coadjutor in much work on the genus published in these Proceedings and whose stimulus and counsel in botanical work I have enjoyed for twenty years. He first drew my attention to this tree in March, 1888, at The Valley, Blue Mountains, and I have had it under observation ever since."
The Woodford Tree, a young giant
Today I walked to the Woodford Tree, 15 years after last being there. It is huge, a staggering sight, a giant. In 1978 it was measured at 78 metres tall. Bigger than "The Grandis". Today I measured the diameter at breast height, 2.5 metres. The tree was re-measured in 2010 by Dr. Dean Nicolle at 71 metres. The tree has been climbed and measured with a drop rope at 69 metres tall.
This tree is surrounded by other species. Rainforest on one side, and turpentine/angophora above on the ridge. They're mostly 25 metres tall or less. There are no other Eucalyptus deanei to be seen when near the big tree. Not senescent, a healthy tree.
It's an isolated giant on the edge of a rainforest. Some of the trees in the rainforest are large. 30 metres tall or thereabouts. Mostly Coachwood and Common Sassafras. Also tall nearby is Acacia elata, a common tree in moist areas in the Blue Mountains.
Named by Maiden after his friend. Joseph Maiden said this about his railway friend and engineer "I name it in honour of my old friend Henry Deane, M.A., M. Inst. C.E., Engineer-in-Chief for Railway Construction of this State, my coadjutor in much work on the genus published in these Proceedings and whose stimulus and counsel in botanical work I have enjoyed for twenty years. He first drew my attention to this tree in March, 1888, at The Valley, Blue Mountains, and I have had it under observation ever since."